[19] “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, [20] but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. [21] For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

[22] The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, [23] but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

[24] No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.” (ESV) —Matthew 6:19-24

1. A Question of Treasure: What Do You Value?

• We all treasure something…

“We are all treasure hunters… we tell ourselves that if we are able to possess and experience what we have come to treasure, then we will be satisfied and happy and finally experience that inner rest that every human being desires.”
—Paul Tripp

• Warning: don’t seek the fading treasures on earth…

“If we think seriously about our possessions, we will realize that they belong to a passing world, which offers no security. In fact seeking security in this world and its possessions is a recipe for producing anxieties, rather than relieving them.”
—Sinclair Ferguson

• Rather: seek after the eternal treasures in heaven

[9] For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich. (ESV)
—2 Corinthians 8:9

• What Do You Value?

“It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.”
—C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory, and Other Addresses

2. A Question of Vision: What Are You Looking For?

“Just as our eye affects our whole body, so our ambition (where we fix our eyes and heart) affects our whole life”
—John Stott

3. A Question of Masters: Who Is Your Master?

“Take God as enough for you, yea, as all, or else you do not take him as your God.”
—Richard Baxter, A Christian Dictionary