Position Your Heart

Where you position something will determine how well it will function. If you put a lawn mower in the swimming pool, it will malfunction. It will be hard to operate, too, and there isn’t anything to mow in there. Jesus tells us in Matthew 6:21 that “Where your treasure is, there also is your heart.” So our hearts follow our treasure. That’s interesting, because, in the world, we are taught to follow our heart. “What’s your heart telling you?” “Oh, just go with your heart…” But here, Jesus says it differently. He doesn’t say to follow your heart; he says to position your heart. Maybe a lot of the messes in life come from our hearts being in the wrong place? Our hearts weren’t designed to operate in this messed-up world. And maybe the wrong desires, or the problems we have, would disappear, if our hearts were positioned where they’re designed to work best, which is with God. When you bring a gift to the Lord at church, a gift from your treasure, then you begin to position your heart in the Lord’s house. Get your lawn mower out of the pool, be generous to the Lord’s house, and watch the grass in your life begin to flourish.

Pastor Jason Anderson
Living Word Bible Church
Scottsdale | Mesa | Ahwatukee