The Heart - The Storehouse of Treasure

UV 3515/10000 The Heart – The Storehouse of Treasure
The intrinsically good man produces what is good and honourable and moral out of the good treasure stored in his heart; and the intrinsically evil man produces what is wicked and deprived out of the evil in his heart; for his mouth speaks from the overflow of his heart.

Luke 6 v 45

This uni-verse gives us a key to understanding the human heart. It is the place where our most sacred, treasured memories, treasured wisdom, treasured desires are stored. It is the sanctum sanctorum or the holiest place in the temple of our bodies. If our intention is good, we will store good things in it. If it is bad, we store evil. We are to speak from the overflow of goodness from our hearts. We should open our mouths when our hearts are filled with the treasures of faith, hope and love. Our communication reflects the fruit of the spirit that we have stored in our hearts. If it is love, we speak with love. If we have stored joy, we speak joyfully. If we have stored peace, we speak of peace. If we have stored humility or gentleness or self discipline, we speak with these qualities. These are the treasures that Jesus said that neither thief nor rust nor mouth can neither steal or destroy.

We should empty our hearts of evil, of the bad memories, of the bad feelings we stored in the time we did not experience the love of God. We should empty our hearts constantly of bitterness, envy, pride. Both evil and goodness cannot co-exist in our hearts, either would rule over the other in the end and determine our destiny. We cannot live a double life by hiding evil in our hearts while we speak of good things. The good treasure we stored in our hearts not only influences our speech or communication, it influences our thoughts, our decisions, our behaviour.

The Psalmist David wrote that he stored the word of God in his heart that he might not sin against God. The word is the greatest treasure we can store in our hearts to overcome, master sin and discipline ourselves before God. While evil intentions, actions and words are mercurial and unstable, the word brings safety, security and stability of strength or power of God into our hearts. Our core values affect our couer, French for heart. It safeguards our hearts from foolish impulses, passions, desires and decisions. It makes our words and actions wise and useful to others. Our human hearts are cured of the otherwise incurable depravity and wickedness it is susceptible to in the world’ s environment.