"For where your treasure is there your heart will
be also."
Luke 12 : 22-34
Suppose you try everything the world had to offer
to find happines. Every year you'd move into a
grander home. Designers would continually stock
your closets with the latest fashions. You'd own
every state-of-the-art "toy" and visit all the world's
finest resorts. Would you ever find the rainbow?
Bernard of Clairvaux, a monk from the Middle
Age, shows what you would discover.
One treasure after another would fail to satisfy,
and then the only object if desire left would be
the Cause of all. it is nature law that makes a man
set higher value on the things he has not got than
upon those he has, so that he loathes his actual
possessions for longing for the things that are not
his. And this same law, when else in earth and
heaven have failed, drives him at last to God. the
Lord of all.
Many people squander their lives trying one
created thing after another, coming to the Creator
only when everything else has failed. Or perhaps
never coming. "Theirs is an endless road," added
Berbard, "a hopeless maze, who seek for goods
before they seek for God." How much we would
be seek God first which is Jesus' point in our
passage.
Why Did Jesus Offer This Instruction?
Jesus' parable of the rich fool taught us that life
is not about possessions. Contrary to the popular
bumper sticker, those who die with the most toys
aren't winners. They're fools for spending all they
have to accumulate things death only strips away.
They go through life wearing spirtual blinders,
always thinking horizontally, never lifting their
eyes to see things from God's perspective.
Thankfully, in Luke 12:22-34, Jesus teaches
us how to have that vertical view so that our
energies can be spent on what really matters in
life.
How Can we Live a Vertical Lifestyle?
Turning from the crowd (vv. 13-15). Jesus now
addresses His disciple (v.22a)-making a subte
but important point.
Only Disciple Can Live Vertically
only a disciple of Christ is capable of living a
vertical lifestyle. Why? Because it takes commi-
ment courage, and faithfulnes. It takes a heart
open to the Spirit's ways at the cost of getting
our own way. Disciple devote themselves to
growing in and being conformed to Christ's
image. And as they mature, they may learn to
think and see and live like Him (see Cor.2:6-16).
The things most valuable to you be discuss later.
be also."
Luke 12 : 22-34
Suppose you try everything the world had to offer
to find happines. Every year you'd move into a
grander home. Designers would continually stock
your closets with the latest fashions. You'd own
every state-of-the-art "toy" and visit all the world's
finest resorts. Would you ever find the rainbow?
Bernard of Clairvaux, a monk from the Middle
Age, shows what you would discover.
One treasure after another would fail to satisfy,
and then the only object if desire left would be
the Cause of all. it is nature law that makes a man
set higher value on the things he has not got than
upon those he has, so that he loathes his actual
possessions for longing for the things that are not
his. And this same law, when else in earth and
heaven have failed, drives him at last to God. the
Lord of all.
Many people squander their lives trying one
created thing after another, coming to the Creator
only when everything else has failed. Or perhaps
never coming. "Theirs is an endless road," added
Berbard, "a hopeless maze, who seek for goods
before they seek for God." How much we would
be seek God first which is Jesus' point in our
passage.
Why Did Jesus Offer This Instruction?
Jesus' parable of the rich fool taught us that life
is not about possessions. Contrary to the popular
bumper sticker, those who die with the most toys
aren't winners. They're fools for spending all they
have to accumulate things death only strips away.
They go through life wearing spirtual blinders,
always thinking horizontally, never lifting their
eyes to see things from God's perspective.
Thankfully, in Luke 12:22-34, Jesus teaches
us how to have that vertical view so that our
energies can be spent on what really matters in
life.
How Can we Live a Vertical Lifestyle?
Turning from the crowd (vv. 13-15). Jesus now
addresses His disciple (v.22a)-making a subte
but important point.
Only Disciple Can Live Vertically
only a disciple of Christ is capable of living a
vertical lifestyle. Why? Because it takes commi-
ment courage, and faithfulnes. It takes a heart
open to the Spirit's ways at the cost of getting
our own way. Disciple devote themselves to
growing in and being conformed to Christ's
image. And as they mature, they may learn to
think and see and live like Him (see Cor.2:6-16).
The things most valuable to you be discuss later.
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