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WHERE IS YOUR HEART?

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 10, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 50.

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WHERE IS YOUR HEART?

By L. A. S.

“WHERE your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” Matt. 6:21.
Each of us knows where he has invested his treasure, and according to these words of Christ, each one may know, with equal certainty, whether his heart is set on things above or on things below. If your treasure is below, your heart is there also, no matter if you have been trying earnestly to persuade yourself it is somewhere else.
It is true now, and will be true to the end of time, that “where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” And when time shall end, it will be forever impossible to change the location of either the one or the other.
And the location of the heart fixes the location of the individual, soul and body. If the heart is below at the day of Christ’s coming, the individual will not be translated above; and if the heart is above, the individual will not be left below. It is certain, therefore, that each one of us, by the disposition he is making of the treasure, great or small, that comes into his hands, is deciding his destiny for “eternal gain or loss,” to be revealed a few years hence. Treasure laid up below, means eternal loss when the earth and the things that are therein shall be burned up; and treasure given to the Lord, means eternal gain when the servants of God enter upon their reward in His kingdom. The bank of heaven will never fail, and will pay the highest interest to all investors throughout eternity.
Where are you investing your treasure? No more important question than this can demand your consideration just now.
L. A. S.