This passage from the Gospel of Matthew discusses the importance of prioritizing spiritual wealth over material possessions. It encourages the reader to store up treasure in heaven rather than on earth, where worldly treasures are vulnerable to destruction. It also uses the analogy of the eye and body to represent that what one focuses on and values (their "treasure") is what fills their heart and life with either light or darkness.
This passage from the Gospel of Matthew discusses the importance of prioritizing spiritual wealth over material possessions. It encourages the reader to store up treasure in heaven rather than on earth, where worldly treasures are vulnerable to destruction. It also uses the analogy of the eye and body to represent that what one focuses on and values (their "treasure") is what fills their heart and life with either light or darkness.
This passage from the Gospel of Matthew discusses the importance of prioritizing spiritual wealth over material possessions. It encourages the reader to store up treasure in heaven rather than on earth, where worldly treasures are vulnerable to destruction. It also uses the analogy of the eye and body to represent that what one focuses on and values (their "treasure") is what fills their heart and life with either light or darkness.
Matthew 6:19-23 Reflection: The Treasure and The Eye
A reading from the gospel according to Matthew 6:19-23
19 “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and decay destroy, and thieves break in and steal. 20 But store up treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor decay destroys, nor thieves break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there also will your heart be. 22 “The lamp of the body is the eye. If your eye is sound, your whole body will be filled with light; 23 but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be in darkness. And if the light in you is darkness, how great will the darkness be.”