March 31 Day 22
Matthew 6:21
“For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”
REFLECTION
The focus of this Lenten series has been on commitment; the undivided heart that trusts in God for all things and in all situations. We have looked in into the power of metanoia and the experience of brokenness that can result in true repentance…a spiritual desire not to not only turn back to God, but to commit to staying the course of holiness.
This transformational form of repentance invites us to access the things we treasure in this life. This is an important task – because Satan is ever ready to use the hypocrisy of our love for ungodly things juxtaposed with our profession of Christian faith. If our treasures are of this world, which can be destroyed or stolen, yet we claim the hope of new life in Christ, our heart is divided. We must choose to serve one master or the other – the material or the spiritual.
PRAYER: Even as we reach for the outstretched hand of our Savior, our other hand clings to the things of this world. Help us to let go, Lord. Free us from our bondage to the perishable and build up our faith in the imperishable. Help us to see that eternity is not in our future, but begins in our today. AMEN
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