For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Matthew 6:21 (CSB)
This one sentence explains yesterday’s verses. And it works backwards from how we think.
We say “put your money where your heart is.” First love something, then spend on it. And that’s true. We do spend on what we love. But Jesus teaches the other direction, the one we forget. The heart ends up wherever the treasure already is. Whatever we pour our money and time into, our heart grows attached to it.
That can be bad news. If everything we have goes into stuff, our heart will live in the stuff. But it’s also very good news. It means our hearts can be aimed.
Maybe we wish we loved God more, prayed more, cared more about people. We don’t have to sit and wait for the feeling. We move the treasure first. Start giving somewhere. Spend an evening helping someone. Put real time into prayer. The heart follows what we invest in. The feeling grows after we start doing it.
And our treasure in heaven isn’t a pile of gold. It’s Jesus Himself. The Bible says to seek the things above, “where Christ is” (Colossians 3:1). He’s the reason heaven is rich. He gave up everything He had, so that we could have everything He has (2 Corinthians 8:9). When we send our treasure toward Him, our heart follows. And He’s the one treasure we can never lose.