Bank on It
Matthew 6:19-20; Luke 15:8-9
"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.
I can take this situation to the bank. See the treasures stored in Heaven here. There is a spiritual bank account that is ever full, ever flowing, and ever ready to run over. It is accessed through the windows of Heaven according to Malachi 3:10. In this verse, God promises to open the windows of Heaven "and pour you out a blessing" you will not have room to receive. Do not be angry because your neighbor has found the windows of Heaven in 2 Kings 7:19-20. The problem with things grasped with my physical hands are very real: bugs, decay, and burglary being among my main concerns. We believe in a God who can visit us without warning. His physical body may have died; it has also been raised again as in John 11:25. Therefore, what we see and experience around our body in this life is not all there is. Sure, we believe God is who he says he is. Congratulations on having achieved demon level according to James 2:19. But we are not demons, are we? Faith applied, as I have said so many times before, is doing something because you believe what someone said was true as in Hebrews 11:6. Hebrews 11 is littered with stories of people who did crazy things because they believed what God said was true. They changed the world because of it. Just as there are weapons of the Spirit, so is there wealth and treasures of the spirit world according to 2 Corinthians 10:4. These cannot be reached by physical means, although they can be manifested in the physical world. Such is the manner of faith. By faith, I took myself to the bank of Heaven and I found much more than I could ever have desired. For if God is keeping the treasure as he does everything in the house, it will not suffer loss.
"Or suppose a woman has ten silver coins and loses one. Doesn't she light a lamp, sweep the house and search carefully until she finds it? And when she finds it, she calls her friends and neighbors together and says, 'Rejoice with me; I have found my lost coin.'
To better explain these banking privileges of the first, it is necessary to see a small illustration from the second. This woman described in this story had ten silver coins. Here, she is seen hunting for one as if that was all she had. Maybe, she did not know she had ten. Maybe all she thought she had was just the one. This is a spiritual treasure now. God sees what she has; you may only see her hunting for her one. Get ready for the physical manifestation now. At the end when they are counted, she has ten coins. To get them, she had to lose the one. Maybe the reason you cannot get past some things is because you are still holding onto the one so tightly. Sometimes, we can be just like the servant who held his coin buried in the ground; he did nothing with it for fear of the master according to Matthew 25:25. See, when this woman finds her coin, she calls for a celebration. The lost coin was hers all along. Because of her faith in action, one coin became many coins more than she had.
I thought I heard some people murmuring that this is a spiritual coin and can only be had when we get to Heaven because why else would they be called Heavenly treasures. If you are one of them, I would rather you stop the nonsense now rather than have God divest you of it as he did with me. If you have forgotten, Jesus paid taxes with coin taken from a fish's mouth and fed many more people; than should have rightly been with the remains of a little boy's lunch as in Matthew 14:13-21. One day, God will set up a kingdom not made with hands using a Heavenly body in Daniel 2:44. Over and over, Jesus chooses to use the little things. He uses the things that do not make sense to further his kingdom. Imagine if you will, if you are the woman with the one coin. She lost it knowing she was poor and had nothing. Then she lit her lamps, got up, went, and hunted throughout the house only to find she really have had ten of those things this whole time. Then she went to the neighbors who said she had ten of them all along. How sweet it is to rest in a God whose word you can believe and take it to the bank.