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Your Greatest Treasure
4 min
Gospel
Mt 6:19-23
“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
“The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light; but if your eye is not sound, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
Readings are taken from Dynamic Catholic’s Bible: RSV Catholic Edition.
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Transcript
Your Greatest Treasure
So we're in chapter six of Matthew's Gospel, and it's a great chapter. Chapter 5 begins with the Beatitudes. And then chapter 6 and chapter 7 is just this whole string of wisdom sayings, wisdom teachings, and a lot of beautiful ideas, challenging ideas, practical ideas. But what jumped out at you today? Was there a word? Was there a phrase? Was there an idea? Jesus starts out, "Don't lay up for yourself treasures on earth." We're all doing that, right? Every single one of us. We're like, "We got stuff. We got so much stuff." And most of the stuff we've got is going to end up at St. Vincent de Paul or Goodwill or in landfill. Most of the stuff, 99% of the stuff. Got all this stuff. And what is Jesus saying? He's saying, "You want to lay up treasure?" He's not opposed to laying up treasure. God is in favor of laying up treasure, just the right kind. And he's saying lay up treasure that doesn't rot, that doesn't rust, that can't be stolen. He's saying, lay up treasure for yourself in heaven. Build character. Build virtue. Allow God to sculpt you into the person he created you to be.
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