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worry and treasure




Does worry take away what you treasure most?  Or, does your treasure help you worry less?


This is one of those questions or suggestions that really doesn’t make sense, at least at first glance.  It is an opposing view or point.  Think about it.  I believe both statements are true and difficult.  What comes to your mind when you think of your treasure, what you hold closest and dearest to your life?


Matthew 6:21  NLT

Wherever your treasure is, there the desires of your heart will also be.


Whatever your treasure is either guides and guards your heart OR distorts and even destroys your heart.  Ouch. 


Worries rob you of your treasure unless your treasure lessens your worries.  Trusting God more means we worry less.  Thus, treasuring what God treasures assures us that we will worry less.  Then, treasuring with doesn’t last will ensure that we will worry more.


Luke 21:34-36  NASB

Be on guard, so that your hearts will not be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of life, and that the day will not come on you suddenly like a trap; for it will come upend all those who dwell on the face of the earth.  But keep on the alert at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are about to take place, and to stand before the Son of Man.


Guard against the worries of life by trusting God.  That will change your worries and help you treasure what is most on God’s heart.  Take some time to make sure that your treasure is making you better and drawing you in to a closer relationship with God.


Proverbs 12:25 NLT 

“Worry weighs a person down; an encouraging word cheers a person up.”


Worry isn’t a gift from God.  In fact worrying keeps you from God.


Philippians 4:6-7  NLT

Don’t worry about anything; instead pray about everything.  Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done.  Then you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand.  His peace will guard your heart and ends as you live in Christ Jesus.


In closing, I challenge you to confess your worries and drop them with the person who can best take care of them.  By the way, that person is not you.


1 Peter 5:7  NLT

Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about you.  


Stop allowing your worry to diminish your treasure and start treasuring things that remove your worries!

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