"Where your treasure is, there also is your heart" (from Mt 6)
Where is our treasure? What do we treasure? What is the difference between placing our treasure, and therefore our heart, in school, work, music, and friends or Jesus? Is there that much of a difference?
Yes.
It's not easy though. It's not easy to place our treasure in the Mass, in the Eucharist, in the sacred scripture. We are called every day to constant conversion towards our Lord, striving to live a holy life no matter what our vocation is. Slowly but surely, however, if Jesus Christ IS where we place our treasure, then he WILL become where we place our hearts. The desires of our heart will be Jesus, and everything else will follow. The love of God will overflow into our lives and to the people around us.
We are called to love. To place our treasure in Jesus is to place our treasure and heart in love because God himself is love.
"Love one another as I have loved you." As I have loved you. It hit me what Jesus is really saying. As I have loved you. He loved us by dying for us. This is how he tells us to love one another - as he did. Now, I feel that it's absolutely impossible for me to love like Jesus did, and that's because it is. It is impossible for me, a human, in my sin, to love as Jesus loved. However, by the grace of God, we can love one another. By the grace of God, we can live the life he calls us to. But it's only by the grace of God. And since it's grace, that means we have to accept it from God. He will not turn us into saints against our will. He does not force grace upon us.
"Where your treasure is, there also is your heart."
Is it Jesus? Is it love? Or is it something else?
