What is Your Treasure?

 

 

What is Your Treasure?

 

 

If you're like me and if you're reading "Inspirational Thoughts and More...," I know a little bit about you. So, I guessing that when I ask "What is your treasure?" your answer will be "my family." You may even say it more than once, "My family, my family, of course."

 

Even though some of us may love bling, or the real thing--gold and silver. Even though some of us collect antiques and have family pieces that are real treasurers. Even though some of us have jobs or volunteer work that give us purpose and support...

 

 

... our heart-felt response to the question,

what is your treasure?

will involve people--

a spouse, your children, your grandchildren,

or those very special forever friends

in your life.



My family, my treasure.....
 

 After all,they give us joy (usually),

they are important to us,

we value them...

in fact, we LOVE them.

 

However, for the purpose of this blog, let's consider the further meaning of treasure--something valuable that is hidden or kept in a safe place--and it's verb form: to collect and store up for future use...to hold or keep as precious...

  

Something valuable

That is hidden

Or kept in a safe place...?

 

 

 

 

Is it possible that one’s Pandora’s Box is her treasure?

Is it possible that the something you cherish is your pain, your resentment, the bad things in your life? Do you think of it while lying sleepless at night? Do you think of it during the quiet times of your day? And when life goes awry, do you store it with the other treasure for possible future use? Is it precious to you because someone injured you and you don't want to let it go? Is it something that brings shame--something sin sick--and so you hide it away?

Your cherish this

because it is yours

and giving it away might mean

that you lose a piece of yourself,

a piece that has become a part of who you are.

 

Matthew 6: 21 reads...

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

 

Is this where you really want your heart to be?

 



 

 

Somewhat scary? . . . or maybe a lot?

 

Philippians 4: 8   ....

Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable--if anything is excellent or praiseworthy--think about such things.

 Jesus said,

The good man out of the good treasure of his heart

brings out that which is good...

C.S. Lewis...

“[E]very time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a little different than it was before. And taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, all your life long you are slowly turning this central thing into a heavenly creature or a hellish creature: either into a creature that is in harmony with God, and with other creatures, and with itself, or else into one that is in a state of war and hatred with God, and with its fellow creatures, and with itself. To be the one kind of creature is heaven: that is, it is joy and peace and knowledge and power. To be the other means madness, horror, idiocy, rage, impotence, and eternal loneliness. Each of us at each moment is progressing to the one state or the other.”



Whick direction are you moving?
Is your "treasure" honoring the God of the universe?
How about filling your "treasure box" with the fruits of the Spirit?

Something to think about!

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