Posts with the category “treasures”

"But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you." We end this week where we began...with a choice. Because that's what this has always been about. Not information, but decision. Not understanding, but surrender.Jesus makes it clear, "Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you." All. These. Thing...  Read More

"But let each one test his own work, and then his reason to boast will be in himself alone and not in his neighbor. For each will have to bear his own load." Let me get vulnerable with you because I need to practice what I'm preaching. I struggle with comparison. Not the kind where I look at someone's car or house and wish I had what they have. It's far worse than that. I compare God's decision to...  Read More

"Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or do you begrudge my generosity?" There's a story Jesus told that makes people uncomfortable, and honestly, it should. A landowner hires workers throughout the day. Some work twelve hours in the burning heat. Others work just one hour. At the end of the day, he pays them all the same amount. The workers who labored all day are furious...  Read More

"The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!" Here's what I need you to know...you can be looking right at Jesus and still be completely blind.In the first century, when Jesus said "if your eye is bad," everyone l...  Read More

 "Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." Can I just say something that might make you uncomfortable? You probably don't know what you'r...  Read More