Where Your Treasure Is

Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust does corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust does corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. Matthew 6:19-21

In today's world, people commonly speak of leaving a legacy. Those that are rich give away piles of money while those with less means contribute to society through art, writing, mentorship, or whatever.

There are so many causes for today's Christians and time, money, and prayer are squandered on most of them. But The Enemy operates in the spiritual realm, in the realm of man's religions, and not in those areas that most Christians take up as righteous issues. This is evidence from his first appearance in Scripture:

Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, has God said, You shall not eat of every tree of the garden? And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of the fruit of the tree which [is] in the midst of the garden, God has said, You shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die. And the serpent said unto the woman, You shall not surely die: For God does know that in the day you eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and you shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. Genesis (3:5)

Notice the perversion of the Word by Eve and the lie introduced by Satan? The actual words were:

But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shalt not eat of it: for in the day that you eat thereof you shall surely die. Genesis (2:17)

This ancient lie is the foundation upon which modern apostasy is based and tells us that our fight is in the spiritual realm and not in merely the moral or political realm.

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high [places]. Ephesians (6:12)

Abortion, homosexual marriage, and the myriad of other issues are only symptoms of a world that has long been under the influence of sin. At the end of the Apostolic age, there was nothing left to do but "preach the word":

Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. 2 Timothy (4:2)

Professing Christians are among those that wish to leave a legacy, but I submit that "leaving" a legacy is far from what a Christian ought to desire. When the saints are called to meet the Lord "in the air" (1 Thessalonians 4:17) there will be nothing left of true Christianity that will be a benefit to those that remain.

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep himself unspotted from the world. James (1:27)

Instead of leaving a legacy, we should be investing in those things that will allow us to take our "legacy" with us, for where our treasures are, there will our hearts be also.