By Dynamis Ministries | August 19, 2021
When’s the last time you thought about your alignment? Maybe it wasn’t too long ago because your car was acting funky as you drove down the highway. The vehicle might be pulling to the left or the right. We might notice our tire tread is uneven or dwindling away. Or our tires might squeal causing us great embarrassment. Worse yet, our steering wheel can look crooked when we’re actually driving straight! It’s not a good feeling to have misalignment in our car. The same is true if we are misaligned in other ways in our lives.
A really bad place to be misaligned is with God’s Word. How often are we aware that our hearts are not aligned with God’s Word? Do we ever recognize that despite God’s command to care for the needy, we still lack compassion? Do we ever notice we have some rotten fruit when one of the Fruit of the Spirit is lacking in us? Do we ever catch ourselves spending too much money on our own pleasures when people like Solomon teach us that it’s meaningless, a chasing after the wind? It’s easy to have our misalignment with God’s Word go right past us.
When we don’t act in alignment with God’s Word in generosity, it can reveal that we value and treasure something other than God and his principles. When we realize that what we treasure is not aligned with the Word of God, there’s a simple remedy: change our treasure. In Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount he says, “For where your treasure is, there you heart will be also” (Matthew 6:21). The word order in this statement is significant. Heart follows treasure. In other words, if we assign something value, if we make it our treasure, then our desire for it will follow.
Consider this: An individual finds themselves receiving a windfall of cash, and they decide to invest it into the stock market. With YouTube counsel or the suggestion of a friend, they choose a stock that looks to trend upward even though they care very little about the company. Once they are invested, they find themselves with increasing interest in the stock’s performance. Each day, they find themselves checking the market more frequently and following the company in the news. Next thing you know, they are obsessed with this stock’s performance. They put their treasure in a company stock, and now they’re heart is completely consumed by it.
This happened because of the Matthew 6:21 principle: their heart followed their treasure. This principle can work the other way though, with a properly placed treasure guiding our hearts in the right way. When we make God’s kingdom our treasure, our heart’s desire for serving God and others will follow even more. By financially giving to a ministry, we are literally investing our treasure (money) in the kingdom of God. We will notice our passion for kingdom causes increasing. Making God’s kingdom our treasure can ignite a passion in our hearts that will spread like wildfire. Choose today to put your treasure in the kingdom of God and see what happens to your heart!
