Daily Devotional for Sunday, July 30

Where Is Your Heart?

“For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” Matthew 6:21.

Treasure is wealth.  If home is where the heart is, then that is where you deposit your wealth.  Why did Abraham search for a city? He had all his cattle, sheep, children, and wives all around him. Did he not consider that wealth? Wasn’t that home? Instead, the scripture shows him sojourning throughout his life with Isaac and later Jacob (Hebrews 11:9).  Their dwellings were temporary. They continued to acquire wealth and yet they searched on for a city. 

I cannot yet see heaven, but I see its light.  Jesus is that light.  In a time to come, the apostle John recorded that there will be a city.  In that city it is said that there is no need for the sun or moon because our savior will be the light of that city.  When I accepted Jesus as my personal savior, a token of that light in the person of the Holy Spirit was deposited to my heart.  This is treasure of inestimable value.  No matter how much wealth is deposited in banks and vaults, houses and lands, relationships of every sort, my gaze is on the light from home, my heavenly home.

Sometimes life’s circumstances draw my eyes from the light.  Like Abraham of old and even the young Jesus, I am on a journey in my personal Egypt.  It’s not home. Egypt is a place of bondage, turmoil, and toil.  Silver and gold I may acquire here but treasure it is not.  It is a foreign currency. One to be used in this jurisdiction as I go about the master’s business. Where I’m going, gold is used to pave the streets.

THOUGHT: Look at the light from home and use what is acquired here to further the Master’s business.

David Thompson