"Don’t store up treasures here on earth, where moths eat them and rust destroys them, and where thieves break in and steal. Store your treasures in heaven, where moths and rust cannot destroy, and thieves do not break in and steal." Matthew 6.19-20 NLT

This is a difficult lesson to apply in our daily life. The need for money so we can survive is a real need. But how much we "need" is subjective and highly influenced by our sense of insecurity, our desire to compare to others, and the bombardment of advertising that we pay attention to. And we work hard to get our "treasures here on earth".

For many of us, we worry less about building up "treasures in heaven". But our time on earth is only temporal whereas our afterlife is eternal. So how do we think more and do more for our "treasures in heaven"?

Christ's command and prohibition here do not refer only to a certain course of action, but to a certain motive and purpose in action, and to actions drawn from these. ...
The main thing is to live and work with an eye to the eternal, not the temporal, results of our doings. We are to administer our lives as God does His providence, using the temporal only as means to an end, the eternal.
We are to live to be God-like, to love God, and be loved by Him.

Two Kinds of Treasure, Alexander MacLaren

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