Light Day 27: Matthew 6:19-24

Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

A double-minded nature corrupts and blurs the light we have within us. If we simultaneously attempt to lay up treasures both on earth and in heaven, we will do neither well. When one eye gazes one direction and the other eye gazes the other direction, confusion and misdirection results.

Similarly, if we attempt to serve two masters – God and the world’s system – we end up serving neither. As James succinctly writes:

A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

Instead, Jesus Christ calls us to be single: singly-minded, singly-focused. While some might say you’re so heavenly minded that you’re no earthly good, Jesus says the opposite:

Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

It’s only when our eyes are singly fixed upon Christ that we discover both the true riches of the heavenly life and the true riches of the earthly life.

The focus of our eyes reveals the focus of our hearts. Our eyes will look towards that to which our hearts incline. Since “where your treasure is, there will your heart be also,” it’s vitally important that we lay up treasures in heaven. When our hearts belong to Christ and our treasure is in Him, we will naturally look to Him and receive His light flooding our being. Looking to self, to others, or to the world will only bring darkness and confusion – and how great that darkness will prove to be in our lives when we make our decisions based on what we observe or feel from earthly factors instead of heavenly ones!

Paul wrote:

But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. (II Corinthians 11:3)

Instead, let’s determine, with Paul, to know nothing except Jesus Christ and Him crucified! (I Cor. 2:2)