Where Your Treasure Is (video)

Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. – Matthew 6: 19-21

Modified Transcript:

Hi, it’s Kimberley from Well Christian Woman.

Recently I’ve been thinking more and more about what we really hold dear and what we treasure. I guess, because of my own recent experiences, and also because right now I’m listening to a couple of my really good friends go through the same thing, trying to make these big life decisions about career and moving and how that will affect families and finances.

It’s the “stuff” that sometimes hinders us from freeing ourselves to true happiness and what God is asking us to do.

For myself and my family, I closed a busy medical practice in July of 2015 when I just really felt called to give up the rat race and spend more time as a family and seek what God has for us. It was the start of adventure (at least that’s how we sold it to our kids).

We decided to home-school and would travel to a locum for two to three weeks at a time. Each kid got a backpack of toys to bring. You’d mash your potatoes with a pastry blender that happened to be in this little one room hotel where five of you were staying for a few weeks.

You know what we realized? As a family (our kids in particular) were the happiest that we had been in years. It was freeing to just give some of that up.

Don’t get me wrong, I live in a beautiful home and enjoy it, and I think that’s a good thing. I don’t think that we all need to be poor or that God is asking for that. He pours out blessings upon us and so I think he wants us to enjoy things.

It’s what we idolize and focus our day around and center our lives and our thoughts and decisions around that I think is where we sometimes get stuck in this quest for security and for things. In Matthew 6: 19-21 it summarizes this so well: “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, where thieves break in a steal. But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.”

The more you start to think about it, and see it in your life, and watch the struggles of people who you know are making some of the same decisions you’ve been trying to make, and giving some of that up, it just becomes more and more true.

You start to realize that it’s not more toys, it’s not another pair of shoes, it’s not those things that are going to make us happy. We just need to seek God and enjoy the blessings that He gives, but not as an idol {that replaces Him}… and with a thought to bless others with what he blesses us with as well.

So for me that’s what I’m trying hard to work on because it’s not easy to let go of that stuff. Just hoping that as I work on this, maybe it rings true for others as well, and we can all be working on it together.

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