Priorities



Mat 6:21  It's obvious, isn't it? The place where your treasure is, is the place you will most 

want to be, and end up being. 

Mat 6:22  "Your eyes are windows into your body. If you open your eyes wide in wonder and belief, 

your body fills up with light. 

Mat 6:23  If you live squinty-eyed in greed and distrust, your body is a dank cellar. If you pull 

the blinds on your windows, what a dark life you will have! 



	There is a choice required in the heart of one that would worship the Father. When the 

choice is made to behold Him the eyes are opened and receptive to the light and revelation that 

only flows from His throne. When the eyes are beholding Him, however, there is no vision left for 

material things or things of this life. As soon as there is a turning to lust and look after 

things of this world, there is a squinting of the eyes to the Light of life. It's not so much 

that there is not to be enjoyment of material things. Verses 26-31 make it clear that the God who 

formed all things as the greatest of artists is willing and able to clothe and care for us in the 

greatest manner. He, in fact, desires far greater thing for us than we can imagine. He knows, 

though, that the greatest treasure we might possess is that found in the comfort and pleasure of 

His favorable presence. True enjoyment of anything in this world will only be found when it no 

longer comes through the fruits of lustful labors, but through the rest in knowing that the God 

who loves us infinitely will "supply all our needs according to His riches in glory by Christ 

Jesus."
	

Mat 6:32  People who don't know God and the way he works fuss over these things, but you know 

both God and how he works. 

	Preoccupation with material things can then become a self-test or a revelation as to our 

true knowledge and fellowship with God. As one begins to live a life of worship, there is an 

abiding in the source of abundant life and there is an assurance that only asking will bring the 

provision of God for any thing that might be needed. The provision itself, then, is not the 

freedom from the bondage of material things, but the passion for "God-reality, God-initiative, 

God-provisions" is as it allows one to rise above circumstances, however they may appear, and 

walk in the authority that comes from knowing one's place at the side of the Master. 

	Worship, then, is a choice for a heavenly treasure, which of necessity disallows passion 

for anything on a lower plane. Rest-the result of God-focus. 


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