LAYING UP TREASURES IN HEAVEN
(Nuggets from Luke 12:21)
A TREASURY is a place INVALUABLE and PRECIOUS things are collected and laid up, a RECEPTACLE in which valuables are kept, a STOREHOUSE, a REPOSITORY.
In Matthew 6:21, Jesus said:
“For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also," Where your TREASURY is, there will your heart be also..
No one keeps PRECIOUS, INVALUABLE and INESTIMABLE ASSETS carelessly and forgets about them. If something is PRECIOUS to you, it becomes your sleeping and waking thought; your heart goes there every second.
Now comes the BIG QUESTION:
What is in the TREASURY of your HEART?
What have you stored up in the repository of your heart?
Do you value the Word of God more than the things of this world?
Who do you treasure?
What do you treasure?
Do you honor and treasure the Principles and Precepts of God more than the treasures of this world?
In today's scripture, Jesus was talking about the PARABLE OF THE RICH FOOL, a very wealthy man whose land produced an abundant harvest, and out of pride resorted to thinking about how to expand and build bigger barns to store his farm produce and plan for a ROSY LIFE. However, God called him a FOOL, declaring that his life would end that very night and questioned who would inherit his stored wealth when he was no more.
The parable serves as a warning against GREED and the FOOLISHNESS of relying on MATERIAL RICHES instead of being “rich toward God,” emphasizing that true life and security are not found in possessions but in A RIGHT RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD.
The Parable of the Rich Fool reminds us what a life of true wisdom is. It’s not in the ABUNDANCE OF WEALTH, but in the RICHNESS of your PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD.
To be rich toward oneself and poor toward God is a terrible ending.
The rich fool was rich toward himself, he was myopic because he felt he had arrived, and that his wealth could afford him anything he wanted, he felt he had need of nothing else, but to enjoy his amassed resources.
WHAT A POOR SOUL HE WAS!!
God is inviting you today to flip your current understanding of this world’s values and interpret the world the way that He wants you to see it. Everything that the Rich Fool was obsessed with ended up being MEANINGLESS AND USELESS.
SURRENDER YOUR LIFE, HEART, SOUL, MIND, BODY, THOUGHTS, WILL, AND EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU TO GOD UNRESERVEDLY.
Wealth is temporary, Influence is temporary, Fame/Popularity is temporary, but a FUTURE SECURED WITH GOD IS ETERNAL.
Earthly possessions are temporary, Natural treasures are seasonal, but
ONLY TREASURES LAID UP IN HEAVEN STAND THE TEST OF TIME.
This is HOLINESS CHALLENGE
DAY 87 OF 365 (2026)
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