Wherever your treasure is, there the desires of your heart will also be. (Luke 12:34)I love that phrase, the desires of your heart. But it doesn’t mean what I always thought it meant. It doesn’t necessarily mean the things you like best. Those are just desires.
What the phrase desires of your heart means is those things that come to fill your heart, those things that become important to you. You may not know what they are at first, but after a while they become valuable.
They are not just things that are fun, or things that you like to do. They are deeper than that.
Jesus said that where your treasure is, there those desires will be. You put your money into what is most important to you.
Look at what a person spends money on. It may be his car, or a hobby. For a while, my son spent tons of money on musical equipment, guitars and basses and especially amps. It was important to him. my daughter loved to collect pens, so she always bought a lot of different ones.
Maybe it is movies that turn you on and you have a collection that is hard to believe, or movie equipment. You have a 55 inch TV with Blu-Ray and surround sound so you can watch them in a theater setting.
You are going to spend your money on something. It is human nature. But sometimes, you can find yourself drawn to something you never thought of before simply because you have spent money on it.
Watch the guy who buys stock. He checks it every morning and evening to see how it is doing. It has all of a sudden become important to him.
It is the same with the kingdom of God. When you invest in the church, it becomes important. And after a while, you really begin to notice it. It becomes a desire, just like the others.
But more importantly, it becomes a desire of your heart. It reaches into you at a level that movies and musical stuff and cars and the stock market and all of the other things cannot.
It fills what one called that God-shaped vacuum in our hearts, the one that only be filled with God and his presence. We can pour all the stuff in the world into it, but it will never be filled.
We are made in the image of God. And as such, we are satisfied only by the presence of God and his indwelling.
When we put our treasure into him, we are satisfied.
And our treasure is not just money. It is our time and our effort. It is our energy and our families. It is our prayer and our study.
How a person spends his or her time is what they truly believe in.
And where your time, you energy, your effort, your life is, there will be the desires of your heart.
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