What's Your Treasure?
Theme of the Week: What Is Your Treasure?
Sunday, September 28, 2008
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Who Said It … Paul Tripp
Paul Tripp does biblical counseling through his Paul Tripp Ministries, teaches classes for counselors, and is on the pastoral staff at Philadelphia's Tenth Presbyterian Church. As a college student, Paul met, fell in love with, and subsequently married Cuban-born Luella Jackson. After seminary, Paul traveled with a band and wrote worship songs, planted a church, and founded a Christian school. The Tripps have four children. And Luella manages a commercial art gallery. What He Said … Chris Plekenpol
Whatever we worship, Christ explains in Matthew 6, will become the thing that controls us. He uses a wonderful word to explain the connection: "treasure." A treasure is something with assigned value. That is why the saying goes, "One man's trash is another man's treasure."
In Matthew 6:19-24, Christ reminds us that we all live for some kind of treasure. What we decide is valuable is what will control our hearts (v. 21). If you pay attention to yourself, this is easy to see. When you get what you think is valuable, you are happy and encouraged; when you don't, you are sad and frustrated.
Finally, Christ says (v. 24) that our hearts are always under the control of something. If something is valuable to us, we will seek to get it through the situations and relationships of daily life.
As Bob Dylan so pointedly wrote, "You gotta serve somebody." So whatever controls your heart will control your behavior.
Adapted from Relationships: A Mess Worth Making (New Growth, 2006) by permission.
Copyright © 2008 by the author or Christianity Today International/Men of Integrity magazine.
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