Breakfast, Book, and Bible Club --Wednesday, October 27 Follow-Up
We host a Breakfast, Book, and Bible Club meeting in our church Fellowship Hall every Wednesday morning at 9am. We try to limit the meeting to one hour in length. The food is great at these meetings, and the discussions make attendance worthwhile. Everyone is invited to attend. We would love to see you at our next meeting!
Currently, we are discussing a book called "Signs," by Dr. David Jeremiah. This past Wednesday, the focus was on Chapter 6 of the book, which highlights materialism as a cultural sign at the end of the age. One key verse pinpointed in the chapter was Matthew 6:21, where Jesus says that "where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."
The word choice used by Jesus is very interesting here. Notice he does not say that you should set your heart on something, and that your treasure will follow your heart. Instead, he insists that our actions can be used to indicate our treasure, and that our heart will naturally follow our actions.
This idea is more thoroughly discussed within an article called "The Fatal Failures of Religion: #4 Materialism," where the author says "(t)he first principle undergirding the precept just put forth is found in verse 21: 'For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.' Generally we are inclined to think just the reverse of this. We suppose that a man will first fix his heart on something and then his money naturally follows. But our Lord says that our heart follows our pocketbook. If I were to buy an old broken down car it would not at that point be a great object of my affection. But after I had spent countless hours in restoring it, not to mention a good deal of money, it would be the ‘apple of my eye.’
Where we spend our money, where we appropriate our material goods and our personal time, is where our heart will be. I might go so far as to apply this principle to marriage. To the extent that we invest heavily, both in time and money, we will find our affections more and more developed and committed."
So, what is the lesson for us in this? If your heart has just not been right recently, try taking correct actions and allowing your heart to follow the lead of your actions. This will require discipline on your part, but just may help you get back on track.
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