What Is Valued

20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:

21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Matthew 6:19-21

Well, isn’t that something this coming in for ethics and staying for the leadership classes gained by following him. I mean, when you’re lost and in charge of a lot, it kind of helps to have some place to go. What’s better than that of the Father to take you under his wing. Not to be funny, but that’s sort of a big deal to those who don’t have much. That’s where the true value of something comes in. Learning leadership from the Lord might mean everything to some and not much if at all to anyone else. Then again, what would you give for something like that. Not that the good Lord is out here in the business of charging people for simply taking lessons from him. I mean, that’s what some would do in this day by assigning a value based on their time. You could say that what that person finds most important is themself, that and the value that money can buy. You know, the treasures of earth like those wants and those needs are subject to the forces thereof the one and the same. Therefore, this world has some things that like the stuff too like the moth and the rust and the thieves. Things of this world like the riches our money can bring get lost or broken or are otherwise taken. That’s why we’ll have to take a look at where we’ll finally end up. Life lived with the Father isn’t all that it seems. There’s other stuff too of the Heavenly realm that really lasts forever it seems. Perhaps you don’t know what that is just yet. Neither do I, but lessons with the Father is a good place to begin. So then the ethical principle isn’t about learning from Jesus but about valuing things. It’s about spending all of your time and effort on all the wrong things and neglecting those greater than you like wonder and mystery and things that don’t really carry a price. Sure, Jesus could have settled down quite comfortably in Joseph’s woodworking shop. He might even have had a wife and a nice life having made all the places he lived. Having learnt a trade, he’d have had earthly fortune without all the fame that he seemed to collect. The issue though isn’t about the fame that lasted for as long as he lived. Rather, it was about issues far greater, that of a life well-lived for the Lord. It was fulfilled if you will. He might not have had all the latest material things but what he did have was well worth his while. He ran quite a large earthly ministry and an even larger one home up above. Come on now, let’s learn ought of the Lord. Your stuff might not live forever but you certainly will. Where your heart is then determines in large part your destination here and the one far beyond. Let’s stop stressing about all the smaller stuff and focus on the much larger things while we’re at it and have time more to keep. As the stories told from the ages of man, ‘the woods are lonely, dark, and deep with miles to go before” we sleep.