treasures...

This week has been a WEEK!

It began on Saturday night when my computer decided to die. Technically it was the hard drive that died but it might as well have been the entire computer. My dad (our resident computer expert) worked on it for two very long evenings with no avail. Now this is an expensive problem and an inconvenient problem but it wasn't that big of a deal until the news that my hard drive being dead meant the possibility of loosing everything on it...including my pictures. That is when I broke. I never thought I would cry about pictures but cry I did.

Then on Thursday night I was studying Matthew 6 with some precious ladies and we read this:

"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal; for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." Matthew 6:19-21

While we were reading this it was like the Lord was asking me where my treasure is. Have I been storing up treasure on a hard drive where it can be erased? Is my treasure in things of this earth that only fade away?

I had a lot of pictures of very precious memories. I should have had them backed up somewhere else but I didn't and now it looks like they may be gone for good. But the treasures behind those pictures; the places I followed Jesus, the people I followed Him with, the lives I saw Him touch, those are eternal treasures that will never be erased.

God is so gracious and gentle in the way He deals with my heart. Even though it's hard loosing the pictures, He used it to refocus my heart on what is most important. I want my treasures to be the things of eternity because I want my heart to be set on the things of eternity. As I prepare to spend my summer serving in Mozambique it's easy to get worried about the little details. But God used this to remind me of the big picture which is lives being touched for eternity. So as the week ends, my heart is encouraged.

God is so good and He does good things.