Where Your Treasure Is
March/12/2008 Filed in: Daily Walk
Series
• New
Testament Reading: Luke 12:1-34
• Old Testament Passage: Psalm 50:7-12
• Points to Ponder
“Where Your Treasure Is”
I can’t listen to the news these days without, at the very least, struggling with anxiety. The price of
oil, gas shortages, interest rates, the TSX or Down Jones averages, property crime, the real estate
boom, record high foreclosures, pine beetles, NAFTA. And if that isn’t enough, there’s climate
change, global warming, terrorism, the U.S. presidential elections, cancer, heart disease, the rise of
obesity, and -- shall I go on; I’m getting anxious just writing this.
Worry has, is and always will be a big challenge for Christians. We live in a faithless world which, as
a result, has every reason (more than they know -- see 12:4-5) to live in fear and anxiety. We hear all
the bad news every day, even if we don’t read the paper or watch TV, from a non-Christian, faithless,
humanistic and most pessimistic perspective. And it wears on us.
But we must be on guard because the worries of this life, if we focus on them and give into them, can
and will choke out the word of God in our lives. The result at the very least will be ineffectiveness
and at most we can get so caught up in protecting ourselves and providing for ourselves that we
completely lose sight of God and things eternal. How tragic that would be, because God, who owns
the cattle on a thousand hills, who is our loving, gracious and forgiving heavenly Father, says we are
valuable and that he wants to give us what we really need -- salvation, eternal life.
• Questions to Consider: How much fear and anxiety do you have in your life right now?
What are you fearful of? What do you worry about? Where is your focus? Are you building
bigger barns or are you rich toward God? Where are you storing up your treasure -- on earth or
in heaven?
• Old Testament Passage: Psalm 50:7-12
• Points to Ponder
“Where Your Treasure Is”
I can’t listen to the news these days without, at the very least, struggling with anxiety. The price of
oil, gas shortages, interest rates, the TSX or Down Jones averages, property crime, the real estate
boom, record high foreclosures, pine beetles, NAFTA. And if that isn’t enough, there’s climate
change, global warming, terrorism, the U.S. presidential elections, cancer, heart disease, the rise of
obesity, and -- shall I go on; I’m getting anxious just writing this.
Worry has, is and always will be a big challenge for Christians. We live in a faithless world which, as
a result, has every reason (more than they know -- see 12:4-5) to live in fear and anxiety. We hear all
the bad news every day, even if we don’t read the paper or watch TV, from a non-Christian, faithless,
humanistic and most pessimistic perspective. And it wears on us.
But we must be on guard because the worries of this life, if we focus on them and give into them, can
and will choke out the word of God in our lives. The result at the very least will be ineffectiveness
and at most we can get so caught up in protecting ourselves and providing for ourselves that we
completely lose sight of God and things eternal. How tragic that would be, because God, who owns
the cattle on a thousand hills, who is our loving, gracious and forgiving heavenly Father, says we are
valuable and that he wants to give us what we really need -- salvation, eternal life.
• Questions to Consider: How much fear and anxiety do you have in your life right now?
What are you fearful of? What do you worry about? Where is your focus? Are you building
bigger barns or are you rich toward God? Where are you storing up your treasure -- on earth or
in heaven?