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The relationship between purse and person is intimate.“For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”
(Matthew 6:21)
That’s intimacy! Find the treasure and you find the heart.
There is a sense in which money is me. Why? Most people receive their income from employment. Suppose you work for a company forty hours per week. You give your time,energy, physical and mental abilities and yourself during those forty hours. At the end of the week, your company gives you a paycheck.
Analyze what has occurred. You have given forty hours of your life. In return, you received a paycheck. That paycheck in very real terms is you or at least a part of you! Every dollar you make has you “in” it! My money is me! Consider the implications this has on how we spend our money. To spend money is to spend life! Where I put my money is where I put my life! We are in everything we purchase because we are “in” our money.
When Jesus said,” Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also,” He was speaking on several levels. Jesus’ statement refers to the intimate relationship that exists between our lives and money. We spend a great deal of our lives thinking about money; earning it, saving it, investing it, spending it, and worrying about it.
The word “heart” may refer to the emotional aspects of our lives. Money stirs emotions, touches our hopes, fears, insecurities, plans, ambitions, and more. It is no wonder that a high percentage of divorced couples identify money as a major contributor to their failed marriages. Money is a hot topic.
Luke 22:19-20 And he took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body given for you, do this in remembrance of me.” In the same way, after supper he took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.”
At the Last Supper, Jesus presented a beautiful symbolic message in which He identified His life with the wine and the bread. As we eat the bread and drink the cup, we remember Him. In a similar fashion, we are in our gifts. As Christ gives Himself to us in the bread and cup, we give ourselves to Him in the offering.
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