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

Matthew 6:21

Some evening when you have a spare moment, get out your old checkbook registers or your bank statements and read through the entries. You may find it interesting, and perhaps somewhat startling, to discover just how the money you’ve earned has been spent.

The entries will read like a family history book. They chronicle every major event—births, deaths, and illnesses—and quite accurately reflect your tastes, habits, and interests.

They record your vacations, travels, and other moves. They also tell much about how expen-sively you dress or how extravagantly you eat. The total spent in each category will pinpoint the things that make the greatest demands on your income— either because of need or by choice.

Such a checkbook checkup might also show our spiritual temperature. The contributions given to the work of the Lord compared with the expenditures for the unnecessary things of life offer some clues. If nothing has gone to the church or to people in need, but large sums were spent for personal gratification, we need to examine our values.

Does your checkbook indicate that you’ve been “rich in good works, ready to give, willing to share”? (1Timothy 6:18) It’s not what you’d do with a million if riches should ever be your lot, but what you are doing at present with the currency you’ve got.

We show what we love by what we do with what we have. Where we put our treasure, Jesus said is where our heart really is in other words find someone’s treasure, and you’ll find their heart; find what people spend their money on and you’ll find what is ‘really’ important to them.

Try doing a checkbook checkup today.

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Garment of Praise

Monthly Insights for Spiritual Growth, Encouragement and Personal Victory.

Oluyemisi Onanuga

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