The Lenten Pilgrimage - Day 10

Saturday, February 27th

     “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal; but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal.  For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”

                                                                                                                         Matthew 6:19-21

     

     How easy it is to spend one’s life in pursuit of the wrong kinds of things.  Easy, and tragic! 

 

     Perhaps we've all been guilty, at one time or another, of expending too much time and energy on temporal pursuits with limited results.  Or maybe we’ve had success and can boast  an impressive storehouse of temporal treasures, for which we’ve paid a high price. 

      In “The Sermon on the Mount”, Jesus teaches us to rethink the treasures worth pursuing, inviting us to consider what treasures are occupying our energies, and to reorient our lives away from temporal, and toward eternal treasures. 

      The things we most treasure are revealed by the greatest investment of our time and energy.   And the nature of our hearts will always be revealed by the things we treasure.

Prayer

   Christ of the cross, we confess that too often we have labored for the wrong things, pursuing 

   the allure of shiny temporal treasures that will eventually rust and decay.  Fill our hearts with

   a growing hunger for eternal treasures.  Help us to be wise in our discerning, that we might

   expend our time, talents and energy to pursue and embrace your eternal gifts that are 

   pure, life-giving and everlasting.  In your holy name we pray.  Amen.