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Luke 12 — Where Your Treasure Is, There Will Your Heart Be Also
Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. Fear Him who is able to destroy both body and soul. Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings? and not one of them is forgotten before God. Confess Christ before men. The parable of the rich fool — Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee. Take no thought for your life what ye shall eat — seek ye the kingdom of God. Where your treasure is, there will your heart be. Let your loins be girded about; the master coming at an unknown hour. I am come to send fire on the earth. Discern the time.
“For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.”
— Luke 12:34
- v.1-12 Fear God, not man
- v.13-21 The rich fool
- v.22-34 Take no thought; seek the kingdom
- v.35-48 Watchfulness; the unknown hour
- v.49-59 Fire and division; discern the time
Thou fool. The rich man's plans were prudent by every secular standard. God called him a fool because the plans had no place for the soul.
The verse is unanswerable. Every retirement plan ends here. The wise man stores treasure where time and death cannot reach.
Seek ye the kingdom. The order is the kingdom first; the necessities follow. Most anxiety reverses the order.
A promise paired with a command. The seeking is the believer's work; the adding is the Father's. Anxiety is the failure to trust one part of the deal.
The heart follows the treasure, not the other way around. Decide what you treasure; your heart will arrive there in time.
A diagnostic. Where do you actually treasure? Your calendar, bank statement, and conversations are honest answers. Move the treasure; the heart will move.
Verse 34 is your honest audit. Track where your money, time, and attention actually go. That is your treasure. If the heart you wish you had is somewhere your treasure is not, move the treasure. The heart will follow.
Luke 12 is Christ's pastoral confrontation of anxiety, greed, and inattention. He commands fear of God, security in Him, kingdom-first living, and watchfulness for His return. Every theme is a piece of Christianity's answer to the modern soul's scatter, and every one rests on Him.
The most worthless of birds; the most attentive of Fathers. If the throwaway is remembered, you certainly are.
The verse exists to lower anxiety. Whatever fear you carry today, the Father who tracks sparrows tracks you. He does not lose count.