Where is Our Treasure?

1 Kings 7:51: “So all the work that King Solomon had done for the house of the LORD was finished; and Solomon brought in the things which his father David had dedicated: the silver and the gold and the furnishings. He put them in the treasuries of the house of the LORD.”

King Solomon carefully placed what his father King David had personally set aside for the Lord many years earlier. We see in 1 Chronicles 29:3 that David was a good example for his son Solomon in material priorities because he gave his “personal treasures of gold and silver for the temple” freely and with pleasure. Solomon put these things his father had gathered in the treasury of the Lord. This is the same counsel Jesus gave his disciples:

Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. (Matt. 6:19–21)

Notice that Jesus didn’t say that where our heart is our treasure will be, but that wherever we put our treasure that is where our heart is going to be. So we can become more heavenly hearted by putting a bigger investment of our treasure in heaven, which our hearts will follow. This is part of the reason why God said David was a man after His own heart. The beauty of this is that the treasures in heaven are forever exempt from decay and theft. So every now and then we need to ask ourselves this question to test our hearts: What is my treasure and where am I keeping it? Every earthly treasure we have is susceptible to obliteration so why focus on it.

“LORD, help us to keep our treasures in You and eternity today.”