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What's In Your Heart's Treasury Today? - Matthew 12:35


“A good person produces good things from the treasury of a good heart, and an evil person produces evil things from the treasury of an evil heart.”
- Matthew 12:35 (NLT)
One of the many issues that we face while living in this world full of sin and death, is that we are constantly bombarded by evil. Evil words and actions are constantly in our faces as a result of local, national, and world events. It is very difficult to shield our eyes, ears, and hearts from the constant state of evil that our world is in. This is a problem at home, school, work, or wherever you find yourself today.
As followers of Jesus Christ, we desire to be good people, as this verse says, who produce good fruit, but that is difficult when we are being filled with so much evil from our world. How do we combat this? By filling our hearts with the treasure that we find in scripture. When we go through our day without opening our Bibles to receive that holy food from God, we are allowing the evil of this world to take its place in our hearts! However, when we do spend time in the word, God fills us with good things instead.
Have you taken time today to spend time in the word? Have you taken the time to fill the treasury of your heart with the good things of God found in scripture? If not, do so now. Fill your heart with the good things God has for you in the Bible and allow that treasury of good to produce good fruit in your life. Others will see and notice the fruit you produce, but more importantly, your Heavenly Father will see it too!
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