TREASURE (D) (S)
I have come to the age where I am on my “own”. Meaning I no
longer live with my parents but with my husband (boyfriendL). Which mean I am the
“manager” of this home, in money, future children, keeping house, and up-lift
Steven.
With money I always thought
managing it meant that you put your bills on paper look at the bank account
PRAY you have enough in there and then write a check that will hopeful go
through when it gets to its place. For four years I have done this. We have
yet to have a check bounce or be denied for whatever reason. (This is an act of
GOD.) But living in this fear makes us sick and with no peace.
Then
slowly with us pretending that this will all just be okay and go away we
started to lose things, like our faith in God and the second car that I used
and soon our last car.
With
the losing of faith we have gotten depressed and feeling alone, scared,
hopeless and losing the things that were promised to us when we put our lives
in God’s hands.
The car!
Well we lost mine and Steven’s has never really run just right. Finely it is
almost fully dead. We have been “trying” to save up to fix it but just can’t
seem to get there.
Steven came
home last night from work and told me that he has found a buy for our guns. Now
if you know Steven this is like me telling him that I don’t love him and that I
am leaving… this is a huge thing! I was mad so mad I couldn’t understand that
what he was doing was putting our worldly treasures to good use. It was a
switch guns for a working car and a hope of a second car for me to use.
All night
i was mad and couldn’t see pass my own problem. I went to Steven after dinner
and said I was sorry because going to bed with him thinking I was mad was
something I couldn’t live with. He then told me that he just felt that for five
years now there was a reason for him saving and buying those guns and now he
sees the reason. The car is more important it will get us to and from work to
keep us living in a state of comfort.
I then
realized today as washing our dishes Matthew 6:19-21. Why couldn’t I see this sooner I
wept to God? What was I thinking! Was I really so over taken by the devil of
false treasures? To not see the thing
that we teach our children!
I felt
peace and cared for in a way I can’t explain. Then I went on the search like
ever God believer does what is treasure? What does God say about it? What is
his treasure? I want to understand! I then went to the back of my bible sang my
A B C’s till I found T ran my finger down to TREASURE and found this…
TREASURE (D) (S) valuable object (physical or spiritual)
Exudes 19:5
Proverbs 10:2
Matthew 6:19-21,
13:44
And started
to read…
I found Gods treasure was Exodus 19:5. Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant
then out of all nations you will be my treasured
possession. WHAT I am Gods treasure when I put my faith in Him!!!
Then I read Proverbs 10:2 Ill-gotten treasures
are of no value, but Righteousness delivers from death. What does
this mean I thought? Bible please
explain yourself here, “Some people bring unhappiness on themselves by choosing
ill-gotten treasures. For example, craving satisfaction, they may do something
that destroys their chance of ever achieving happiness. God’s principles for
right living bring lasting happiness because they guide us to long-term right
behavior in spite of our ever-changing feelings.” I took this as if you are
craving “worldly” things for me it’s the need to dress like my girlfriends or
have a new phone that the radio is advertising or wanted to have a something
that we just can’t afford. And God told me as his child that this is wrong. You
can want but you want the wrong things. He wants me to behave like His not the
devils. That calls me to manage our money smartly to look at the worldly
treasures and say, “I want you but I don’t need you. I need a car that runs.”
Which leads me to, Matthew 6:19-21 Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust
destroy, and where thieves break and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and
rust do not destroy and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your
treasure is, there your heart will
be. PEACE!
Then I read what Jesus himself said in Matthew 13:44 “The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man
found it, he hid it again and then in his joy went and sold all he had and
bought that field.” I started
to cry again I’ll be honest. God gave us the kingdom of heaven as a treasure
even though it has a bigger price tag then any of us could ever have money for.
See it is bigger than just worldly things like a gun, or a new shirt, new
phones, and even a car. We are told to look at the world then look at heaven
and chose! For
my family we chose God and by doing that we chose to keep the things we need
and to give up what we don’t.
I will let you go about your day now with this. Pray! Pray for your treasures
for your heart is there. Is it really something you need or just want?
