Heart’s Treasures

Scripture/Bible: "Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal, 20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

22 "The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light; 23 but if your eye is not sound, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness! Matt 6:19-23

Reflection: “For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.”

Think for a while; if you thought that that which is valuable is treasure then you are partially right; for what is valuable to you may not be valuable to everyone. 

Though things that are valuable in terms of wealth or money are considered treasures but for the Lord that definition has no value and it is not useful for our salvation.

It is no treasure even if it is the most costly thing in the world in terms of monetary measure, only when your heart is on it then that is treasure.  Wow! What a definition of the word treasure. a subjective way of looking at and arriving at an objective meaning! 

We may not set our hearts on money or gold but we could be setting our hearts on sinful pleasures and addictions.  We may not set our heart on a house or a bungalow but our hearts could be set on accumulating pseudo knowledge and degrees and qualifications.

Our hearts could be set on pets, and artifacts and designers and branded items.  So also our hearts could be set on power and positions in our work place or society at the cost of compromising on our moral principles and character.

Our hearts could also be set on sinful habits and bondages in its search for freedom and happiness, or it could seek that happiness in fragile human relationships.

Among all these numerable attachments that the heart could be set on, we realize that we can’t be a desire free hermit and run away from this very nature of the human heart, which by its very nature yearns to be set on something or the other. It even leads to much pain, trauma, anxiety, hurt, frustration and guilt when its goal is not achieved.

O the wondering human heart in search of its lost love, how will it be satisfied in the mortal perishable things of life!

No wonder St. Augustine said:  “Our hearts were made for you, O Lord, and they are restless until they rest in you.”       

Prayer: “Blessed is he whom thou dost choose and bring near, to dwell in thy courts! We shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, thy holy temple! Ps 65:4

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