Where Your Treasure Is

Insider trading is not illegal when it comes to investments in eternity. 

There is a reason why insider trading in the market is illegal.  Economics is a balance of limited assets. People invest in the market based on predictions that are not guaranteed.  If someone knows an “insider’s” information about changes coming to a particular corporation, that person is able to unfairly hedge their investments and essentially steal assets that belong to other people.

When God became a man in Jesus Christ, He gave us insider information. He gave us guarantees. He essentially said, “Put all your assets toward God’s Kingdom – time, skills, relationships, money, and this investment will deliver certain returns for eternity that cannot be lost.”

In Matthew 6:19-24, Jesus said this: “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.  For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.  The eye is the lamp of the body.  So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness.  If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!  No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other.  You cannot serve God and money.”

All we have known in our experience is this world, this planet.  Everything human in us wants to stock up on what matters and what makes us comfortable in this world.

Jesus tells us that all we have in this world with respect to material goods will pass away – even all our worldly accomplishments and accolades will pass away.  In fact, this entire world will pass away.

Jesus challenges us to take a big risk.  Rather than spending our lives acquiring assets we can’t keep, He calls us to place our trust in Him and His finished work on the cross, to have faith in God’s plan, and through His power, to invest our lives in ways that amass sure returns in a new heaven and a new earth that will last forever.  Jesus tells us we must choose – choosing Him means changing our loyalty from this world to the next one. This is an all-or-nothing venture.

While we continue to live in this world, will we take the risk of investing our lives differently?  We have insider information. Jesus tells us His information is certain.  Do we have the faith to take Him at His word and take this risk?  If so, today is the day to begin investing our lives in things we will have forever.

In Christ,

Chris Heinss