“For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also”.

~Matthew 6:21

We all have things that we treasure. Some of them are good, and some of them aren’t good. When I was between the ages of 9 and 12 years old, I was what today we call a “material girl.” I would cry when I couldn’t find my cute expensive shirts or couldn’t get the pair of Jordans I wanted. The only reason why I would get so emotional about those materialistic things was that I treasured them, and they were important to me.

Treasure can be something that a person adores or take esteem in. For example, some people can treasure material items, a significant other, friendships, opinions, education, and careers. The things or relationships we treasure become bad when we idolize them and put them at the forefront of our lives before God. Matthew 6: 21 (NIV) states, “For where your treasure is, there your HEART will be also.” Therefore “our hearts [become] owned by whatever we consider our `treasure’”. The things that we treasure/ love dearly have the potential to cause heartbreaks, confusion, anger, and a lot of other emotions because that kind of love should be reserved for God. God cares more for your heart than He does for your actions. Being young, I know it's hard for us not to be focused on our treasure, i.e., careers, which is not a bad thing, but when we idolize our treasure, we’ve replaced God.

Thus, it is important for us to always keep Jesus first in our lives and to choose His perfect will for our lives over our own will. Ways we can do this are by:

1.     Desire things in our hearts that God wants for us

2.     Desire godly friendships and relationships

3.     Desire God more than worldly things

4.     GUARD OUR HEART because “everything [we] do flows from it” Proverbs 4:23.