What's your most valuable asset entering into the year 2022?

Time

Last night my family and I were watching home videos of me and my brothers growing up in the 90's. It made me realize how quickly time goes by and how we need to guard what we spend our time on.

Your time is the most valuable asset you'll ever have available to you. Usually, what you spend your time on is tied up with your finances, what you spend your money on. Jesus said in Luke 12:34, "For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also". What if I were to replace the word "treasure" with "time and money"? That verse would read something like this, "For where you invest your time and money, there your heart will be also." If you were to look at what a person spends their time and money on, you could very quickly determine what their heart is attached to.

I would challenge you to look at this past year and consider what you've spent your time and money on. Whether you believe it or not, that's where your heart is. Many people spend the majority of their time at work, and then wonder why their relationship with their spouse and children are suffering. Your heart is with your job and not with your family. Many wonder why their relationship with God has grown stagnant. Why they have no desire to read His word and can't seem to hear His voice. Yet, those same people will stay up late watching a movie or a sporting event on TV. Those same people will spend half a day sitting in a tree stand in the woods in the freezing cold. Those same people will spend endless amounts of money on entertainment, vacations, video games, fitness supplements, firearms, etc., you fill in the blank. None of those things are evil in and of themselves unless it has your heart.

It's not a sin to have treasures but it is a sin for those treasures to have you. Jesus wants your heart. When the rich young ruler approached Jesus in Luke 18:18 he asked, "what shall I do to inherit eternal life?". Jesus' response in vs. 22, "Sell all that you have and distribute to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven, and come, follow Me." You see, Jesus didn't want to make him poor. Jesus realized that his heart was consumed by his things, his riches. That's what he trusted in.  All Jesus asked was that the young man trust Him with his finances (lay up treasures in heaven) and give Him his time (follow Me). I believe that if this young ruler would've taken this step of faith and given His whole heart to Jesus, he would've been one of the most prosperous men of all time. He would've experienced and lived out the eternal life that he was asking about.

If your relationship with God has grown stagnant and your not growing and maturing as a Disciple of Jesus Christ then I want to challenge you today to examine where you're spending your time and money. You have the power of choice. Choose to sow your time and money into the kingdom of God and I guarantee that you will reap a bountiful harvest. I can say that, because that's what the Word says and I've experienced it in my own life.  In 2 Corinthians 9:6 Paul says, "But this I say, He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully."