What is important to you? That is a question that you have to ask yourself every day. The answer to that question drives everything that you do each day. It decides who you associate with and how you treat people. It decides what kind of career you have, how you treat your family, and who your friends are. It also decides what place God has in your life.
If you are like the hypocritical religious leaders of Jesus’ day, then what is important to you is hearing people tell you how great you are, whether at your job, or as parents, or even as a pious little church goer who loves Jesus so much. You only want to hear that you are the best, the brightest, and the most important. You are searching for earthly treasure.
Jesus tells you that your thinking should be just the opposite of this. His statement in Matthew 6:22 says that your actions will follow what your heart longs for. If you want earthly treasures, be it praise or actual money and possessions, you will get those. But, you’ll not have anything else, because your heart is on the things of the world. What you should be looking for is the light of the living Word of God to shine on everything you do so that you are truly living a life that reflects Jesus Christ.
The apostle Paul told Timothy that “the love of money is a root of all things evil.” (I Timothy 6:10). It is not the money itself that is bad. Many faithful Christians are very wealthy in earthly terms. Rather, it is the act of making money and possessions your idol that you worship that drives you to do whatever you need to do to make just a little bit more. Jesus says the choice is perfectly clear - you can love God or you can love money. You cannot love both. One will have to take a back seat to the other.
It is your choice to make. What is important to you?
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