Where is Your Heart

Read 1 John 5

Everyone who believes that Jesus 

is the Christ is born of God, 

and everyone who loves the father 

loves his child as well....

Who is it that overcomes the world? 

Only he who believes

 that Jesus is the Son of God.

                                          1 John 5:1, 5

Where is your heart.
One minister I know I think described many Christians in the so called popular culture of the church today. He said,
“They have both feet firmly planted. Unfortunately one is planted in the church and the other is planted in the world.”
Basically he was saying they wanted the best of both worlds. But Scripture tells us you can’t serve God and man. You can’t fully serve two masters. Scripture tells us that if you try to you’ll always hate one.
We must make a decision. Do we want to serve God to the fullest of our ability or not?
Matthew 6:19-21 states,

“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.”

Where is your treasure? Where do you stand for God? I have always found that when a man tries to operate in both worlds and opposition comes he quite often sides with the world.
The only way we can overcome the world and it’s desires is to be firmly rooted in Christ. So firmly rooted that we can’t be moved in our faith.
When my son came back from helping the hurricane Katrina victims I noted a picture he had. It showed the devastation to one building. It looked to be an apartment building windows smashed debris all around. The building itself uninhabitable. The treasures of its in habitants more than likely scattered to the winds.
But in front stood a row trees their roots obviously well anchored battered by the same storm, one of the worst in history, but standing.
That’s how our faith should be. We should be able to go through a lot. To go through the pounding the world give us with all its sin and still be able to stand for God.
That’s what John is saying. We must believe. Listen to the words of John.

“Who is it that overcomes the world? 

Only he who believes

 that Jesus is the Son of God.”

Something to think about.
We need to believe with our whole heart. That Jesus is the Son of God and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek him.
As John puts it in 1 John 5:12
He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.
Where do you stand? Where do you really stand?
Ask God to show you?