May 18, 2016

"Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also" - Matt. 6:21

Hope you are doing Bible study!  I just love our church's ladies Bible study, but when it's over I quickly start one on my own...it's the only way I know to grow in my faith.  I just finished Jennifer Rothschild's INVISIBLE: How You Feel is Not Who You Are. It's a chapter book but filled with Scriptures to study.

Much of her focus is on those things in our lives that we go to for satisfaction that never seem to satisfy.  She calls them "idoltrinkets".  They might be food, people, things, appearance and anything else we make more important than God.  It was very convicting and I guess you can guess that mine might be "treasures on earth" (from our pillow today!) that really aren't treasures at all.  They don't satisfy (for longer than a few seconds anyway)  - why I do I give them power to do something only God can do?  We become enslaved to whatever our minds long for.

Colossians 3:2 says:

"Set your affection on things above,
not on things on the earth".

The word for "set" is phroneo and it means to "direct one's mind to a thing, to seek or strive for".  Our mind is to be directed toward God.  Jennifer says:

When He is our treasure, our hearts will be
drawn toward Him, honoring Him.  When we keep our
minds on ourselves...we become our own
treasure and use our idoltrinkets only to
enrich ourselves.

John Piper says it this way:  "God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him."  What are you finding satisfaction in these days?  I'll have to spend some time thinking on that one.

For further study:  Jonah 2:8, Psalm 119:37, Proverbs 4:23, Isaiah 44:9, Matthew 16:26, Luke 18:22, 2 Cor. 10:5, 1 Timothy 6:7, Titus 2:12, Hebrews 13:5, 1 John 2:15-17.

Be blessed in your understanding of God's word.

Love,
Holly 

 

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