Today we continued our teachings about pursuing the inward work of the Holy Spirit in our lives.
We have so far studied loving the Lord our God with all we are, Fearing the Lord, Acknowledging Him and this week we are focused upon valuing and treasuring.
Now really we are looking at treasuring, but valuing is included in this concept. The English translations of the scriptures use the word treasure for several concepts, but in the scriptures we will be looking at today, the word treasure means to “store up”.
In the end, we store up what we immediately value.
Storing something up just because it possesses value isn’t enough. Storing it up because it has immediate value to YOU is another matter entirely and doing this evokes actions out of us which God rewards.
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