March 29th- Where our Treasure is.

Matthew 6:21 "Where your treasure is, there the desires of your heart will be also."

Where do you put your treasure? The best way to find the answer this question is to look at where your heart is. Do you find joy in doing the things of God, or are you bored when you are praying, reading the Bible, or sitting in church? When we find ourselves unable to find joy in doing God's work, it is because we have put our treasure in things other than Him. Strangely enough, many times these things are disguised as being Christian work. We must ask ourselves, do we love to pray because we want to be with God, or do we pray so that people will know us as a person who prays? Do we spend time reading the word because we love his commands, or because we love doing what we are "supposed" to do? Do we seek God because we really want him, or because we have fallen in love with the things that he can give us? These are important questions for us to ask ourselves. Anything in our lives that takes away from our desire to seek Jesus must be removed, no matter how noble it might look on the outside. Only when we put our treasure solely in the person of Jesus Christ are we able to truly delight in his work, and because he deeply desires for us to be joyful, he will never let us be content with the idols that we set up in His place.

Proverbs 4:23 "Guards your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life."