ARE YOU SICK OF LIVING ANYMORE?

“For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also” (Luke 12:34)


Have you been feeling a little restless lately? Have you been finding it hard to concentrate at work? Does the things you once held in awe in this world seem to be losing its beauty? Good! You are the person I want to speak to in this devotional today.

I encourage you to read this entire chapter of Luke 12 in your reading time. It has many powerful truths and a very powerful warning to believers today. But time and space constrain me to speak on this verse of scripture right now. Jesus was speaking here on an all too common problem with saints today. He began to speak on worrying about will I have enough food? Will I be able to keep clothes on my family? These things are not sinful in and of themselves. But Jesus knew the spiritual principle that what you focus your heart on the most, that thing becomes the treasure you pursue with all your strength and might.

Today’s shaking economy can cause one, who doesn’t posses perfect peace in Jesus, to worry over bank accounts, bills, medical problems and jobs. And in your worry and fear you will begin to pursue the money and security you need to fix these things with all your heart. It will in turn cause these things to become the treasure of your heart, wanting and desiring these needs above all else, even to the point of neglecting the one who can supernaturally provide these things when you need them, Jesus. He is our Jehovah Jireh, translated “the Lord our provider”.

But I want to speak to the restless ones, the ones who are finding it hard to even go to work anymore. Maybe yours is a different situation. Your heart is not fixated on money, fine clothes, etc. Actually, you are finding it hard to find joy in anything anymore! You see the troubles going on in the world, and all you can think of is “Lord, please come back! I am so tired of dealing with life anymore”. You may think this is wrong, and feel bad about yourself, but be encouraged, for I feel this is not some spirit of depression, but the work of the Holy Spirit! You see, before Moses could deliver the children of Israel out of Egypt, God had to first get the love of being in Egypt out of their heart!

Think about it, how could Moses lead a group of people out of bondage, if they were happy and intent on staying there? God had to make there lives bitter, with hard bondage and suffering in slavery everyday to the point they began to cry, with their heart, “Lord, deliver us! Please get us out of this miserable existence!” Here is a profound statement if you will receive it; God has to send troubles and persecutions your way to purge you from loving this world to much to want to leave it! He has to get you to the place you are so sick of this world, not the people in it, but of the things of this world, so that you are not so rooted in it, you can’t be plucked up from it when harvest time comes!

John reached a place even after he saw the terrible events in the book of Revelation, that all he could still say was; “Even so, come Lord Jesus” (Revelation 22:20). We are to be in this world, but not of it. Keep that burden for the lost and backslidden, keep those prayers going to be a light in this dying world, but let the Spirit of God continue that work in you, in falling out of love for the world, and more in love with seeing Jesus face to face! May we all come to the place that we love seeing Jesus more than any enticement or toy the world has to offer. All these things will fade away in time, but if your heart’s treasure is seeing the one who gave his life for you, then you have your treasure in the right place beloved.