Don't store up treasures here on earth, where moths eat them and rust destroys them, and where thieves break in and steal. Store your treasures in heaven, where moths and rust cannot destroy, and thieves do not break in and steal. Wherever your treasure is, there the desires of your heart will also be.
Your eye is like a lamp that provides light for your body. When your eye is healthy, your whole body is filled with light. But when your eye is unhealthy, your whole body is filled with darkness. And if the light you think you have is actually darkness, how deep that darkness is!
No one can serve two masters. For you will hate one and love the other; you will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and be enslaved to money.
That is why I tell you not to worry about everyday life - whether you have enough food and drink, or enough clothes to wear. Isn't life more than food, and your body more than clothing? Look at the birds. They don't plant or harvest or store food in barns, for your heavenly Father feeds them. And aren't you far more valuable to him than they are? Can all your worries add a single moment to your life?
And why worry about your clothing? Look at the lilies of the field and how they grow. They don't work or make their clothing, yet Solomon in all his glory was not dressed as beautifully as they are. And if God cares so wonderfully for wildflowers that are here today and thrown in the fire tomorrow, he will certainly care for you. Why do you have so little faith?
So don't worry about these things, saying, "What will we eat? What will we drink? What will we wear?" These things dominate the thoughts of unbelievers, but your heavenly Father already knows all your needs. Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need.
Matthew 6:19-33
Aren't the words of God amazing? I woke up this morning with these verses on my mind so I opened up my Bible and read them. And then my 2 year old son crawled onto my lap and I read them again. When I was finished reading he said, "again." This morning I read these verses over and over. I think that's what God means about meditating on and hiding his words in our hearts. Knowing it so much that it becomes who we are and how we live.
I would love to tell you all about what these verses mean to me now and how God spoke to me through them this morning. But I'm not going to. I think that would be robbing you of an opportunity to spend time with God and allowing Him to speak to you. What I am going to tell you is to read them and read them again. Let God speak to you through them. And you can know He will because His Word is alive!
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