Where is your Heart?

Today’s Gospel Text: "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: Oh! The human heart! In the physical sense, who can move it except through surgery or by accident and yet, all things are possible with the human heart.

The heart can move with compassion

The heart could be moved with pity

The heart could be gripped by fear

The heart could be become hardened and stony

The heart could skip a beat in moments of shock, surprises or excitement

The heart loves and can ache

The heart can be in great pain over the loss of a loved one

O the power of the human heart, which is the seat of every emotion; it is able to move and work not just physically but also emotionally.

One of the qualities of the human heart that can be detrimental for our salvation is that of possessing things and even accumulating or hoarding.

We do that because we feel that we will be able to make much out of life or do it for the sake of security which we feel when we hoard things.

It is these very thing that Jesus is warning us against, concerning hoarding of treasures: “For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” (vs. 21)

Our hearts sometimes can be so set on treasures that we may even forget every aspect of human relationships. 

The worse is when that treasure has been earned by us through hard work, then we feel that we have every right to it, even forgetting God who has given us the ability to earn.  (cfr. Dt. 8:18)

On the other hand, a man can have the abundance of wealth and riches without having his heart set on them, though it is rare. But God can make what is impossible with man possible with his help (cfr. Mt. 19:26, Mk.10:27, Lk. 18:27)   

Prayer:  “Blessed is the man who fears the Lord, who greatly delights in his commandments!  Wealth and riches are in his house; and his righteousness endures forever. Ps 112: 1, 3

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