The Bible has often related love with treasure in many instances. For where a man/woman’s treasure is there is their heart also. So the treasure of your heart is the object of your love. To love God requires us to value Him above all else. A song writer wrote “something more than Gold, I found something more than Gold, if all I have is Jesus, Jesus is more than gold”.
You see treasure is hard to find. People work in mines to seek for treasure in deep places sometimes for months. To love God requires seeking Him.
With all my heart I have sought You; Psalm 119:10
Seeking the Lord goes beyond association. Many times many believers like to belong as a sign of their worship for God. You cannot seek God with your family or your friends or your mates at church. Seeking is a journey for self discovery. Because when you find God you find yourself and your purpose on earth. Seeking goes beyond searching, a search can end when you don’t find what your are looking for, seeking however will not end till the object of love is found. Seeking goes beyond your comfort zone and pleasure, seeking requires all your heart, all your soul , all of you. Seeking God guarantees Him being found.
The assurance we have in seeking God is that He has promised that if we seek Him we shall find Him. The command is after you have found God, love the Lord with All your heart.
“With my whole heart, with my whole life, and with my innermost being, I bow in wonder and love before you, the holy God!” – Psalms 103:1 TPT
The relationship between the Spirit and heart is the heart is the gate to your spirit.
God is spirit and they that worship (love) must do so in spirit and in truth. The only way one can access your spirit is through your heart. And so what consumes your spirit is what your heart is attracted to (the object of your love). For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Matthew 6:21
It is therefore important for us to guard our hearts from things that become treasures. We should beware of things that can steal our affection.
Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it. Proverbs 4:23
The amazing thing is you can actually measure the content of your heart. By considering what consumes your heart, your get to know where your treasure is and where your heart is also.
Overwhelming feeling will express itself in speech; originally with biblical allusion to Matthew 12:34, ‘Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.”
If your affection is on God, if the object of your love is God, if you have sought Him and found Him it will be evident in your speech.
Shalom; Peace and Life to you!!!
Pastor Ron Chiarelli
Virtuous Living 