Your Storehouse of Treasure

The Parable of the Soil & Sower grabs the attention of Christians to be aware of what our hearts are receiving (Mark 4:1-20). One simple gauge that Jesus expressed in the famous Sermon on the Mount: “The eye is the lamp of the body. So if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness” Matt. 6:22-23.

This concept, simply put, expresses that what we look at, we treasure. To take that further, what we treasure, we think about, and we live in such a way that expresses and protects what we treasure. In Acts 18:6-10, Paul expresses a decision with the gospel as the foundation of his heart, to focus his efforts to teach the gospel to the Gentiles, who gladly received it. Paul’s adjustment didn’t cause him to leave the city, but to start teaching in the house of a new believer directly adjacent to the synagogue, with the ruler of the synagogue and his family also coming to faith in Jesus, and likely being in attendance in the house.

The Lord encouraged Paul to keep speaking, because He was with him and no harm would come to him, for the Lord had many people in the city (18:9). Paul’s eyes and heart had to be fixated on Scripture to equip him to produce the fruit that comes from living for Jesus in every moment. Take perpetual steps to put the Scriptures in front of your eyes, storing up God’s Word as the treasure of your body, which is a temple, the location where treasure is stored, recorded, and guarded.