Where your treasure is

I was thinking last night, as I began tackling another Sudoku puzzle (the best puzzle game ever, It's highly addictive), how well do I manage my time? I know we've all thought about this at one time or another. I've heard many sermons about how if we look at our checkbooks, we can find out what is important to us. Well, if that is the case, then I must really love fast food. Either way, most times I let those challenges (to manage my time better) just slip my mind as I find something more important to think about.

The truth is, those sermons weren't just some proverb that man came up with. That truth comes right out of the gospels. Jesus states, where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. If I claim to love Christ, and desire to bring him glory, yet my time and energy reflect something totally different, who am I lying to? Myself? Jesus himself? Both? I wonder how often we tell many people how we love Christ, and we even tell him that we love him more than anything else, yet our time and energy reflect something grossly different from what we say. I can talk a good talk, but how often to I walk the way I talk.

I know this post was full of cliches; and in some part, that was intentional because I think sometimes this truth becomes a cliche when it shouldn't be. I want to show people how much I love the Lord by the way I live. I challenge you to do the same.