What Are You Treasuring Up for Yourself?

Each day we face a choice—one or the other.

“But in accordance with your hardness and your impenitent heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God.” Rom. 2:5. Either we receive the harvest written about here, or through humility, goodness, and mercy we can treasure up for ourselves an eternal reward on that day.

What do we choose? God shows no partiality; He looks into the heart.

“Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: ‘Today, if you will hear His voice, do not harden your hearts. . .’” Heb. 3:7-8. Just think—today God can give us a new heart and a new spirit. He can take away our heart of stone, and give us a heart of flesh. “I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them.” Ezek. 36:26-27.

Now we have the Spirit of Christ as an indwelling power to keep His statutes, which He writes in my new heart and mind, and thereby I can treasure up for myself an eternal richness in my spirit.

“Most assuredly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain.” John 12:24. As I deliver my own self into death, God can fill my spirit with glorious fruit. Patience instead of anger, the joy of giving instead of stinginess. No more anxiety or worry—but instead, peace!

“For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.” 2 Cor. 5:1. “. . . that the excellence of the power may be of God.” Ch. 4:7. God’s own power at work in me!

“For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh. So then death is working in us, but life in you.” V. 11-12. “Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.” V. 16-18. Let us be zealous and treasure up for ourselves the fruits of the Spirit. And with God’s kingdom within us, we can be of true help.