Where's Your Treasure

Luke 12:32-34  “Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom. Sell your possessions, and give alms; provide yourselves with purses that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.


Like yesterday's passage Jesus does not leave us room to desire wealth on this earth. Every time we settle back into the accumulate money and stuff mode he seems to hit us again with a different demand. Sell he says, not even stop accumulating, but sell. Wow we need to get rid of stuff so we can give our wealth as alms. I have certainly struggled with Jesus teaching about our possessions. I think the fear not little flock part aims right at me. I don't want to be poor. I grew up somewhat poor and although I can't say life was ever bad, I can say I don't want to be poor. I'm not rich so sometimes I hold myself out of this picture because I can avoid what I accumulate by comparing myself to others who have so much more. It is easy to lull yourself to comfort when we should feel like you're sitting on pins and needles. 


I was watching "Slumdog Millionaire" the other day and although India is making strides to emerge from poverty, only the upper casts are really given that opportunity. The lower casts still live in complete poverty. I sit in my easy chair watching my HD flatscreen TV with cable and DVR and eat three full meals a day. In a couple of days I will be dropping off my son and his Jessica for their 100 mile wilderness adventure through the Alligash ending near the Canadian border. They have planned carefully and the food will not be scarce on this trip even though it is a hardship trip by canoe through the great wilderness. I wonder where my treasure is and I wonder where I've taught my children to find there's. Where's your treasure?