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For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also!

by Pastor Jim Brown
Horizon Christian Fellowship
(www.calvarychapel.com/hcfw)



Who is your master? It’s a good question - but for some, it’s also a hard question. What motivates our life IS our master. Especially in today’s society, it is common to let our job or our children drive us, or maybe it’s our inward need for success or our love of MONEY or whatever our motivation might be, it is our master.

Jesus said, “No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other”. This very pointedly shows us that if we are serving another master than Jesus Christ, who died for us and rose again that we might live for eternity, then we are hating or despising God.

Thinking of those who serve money (and you don’t have to be rich to do so) or power or fame or cars or THEMSELVES and how empty the entire pursuit is...how empty their treasure box in Heaven will be. Thinking of the poor and meek in Spirit (Matt 5) will then show us those who will ultimately be rich in Heaven – for they are (without even trying) storing up the greatest treasures beyond our wildest dreams. They will, when they are standing before our Lord, hear the greatest compliment that we can hope for: “Well done thou good and faithful servant! Enter thou into the joy of the Lord”.

If we are of the mind that we have been serving another master and want to change – God is calling us to repentance today. He is calling us to love Him with all of our heart, mind, soul &strength. He is calling us into a loving relationship based upon trust (our trust in Him), faith, and intimacy. A relationship is all about sharing our hearts with Him and learning of Him and seeking His will for our lives and choosing NOT to simply follow our own selfish and/or self-righteous desires. To serve God, His will, His desires and His heart must be foremost in our minds and hearts and our actions will follow.

Pray with me that OUR master is THE MASTER, Jesus Christ our Savior...
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Matthew 6:19-24 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: 20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: 21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. 22 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. 23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness! 24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
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Email me at pj-brown@sbcglobal.net

posted by Pastor Jim @ 10:00 AM