You've heard it said, and it is true, it is hard to carry a full cup. It is hard to be a Christian and have something going for you. Whether it be money, whether it be talent, whether it be skill of any kind, it is difficult because those strengths within our lives usually, because of our nature, engender pride within us. It is hard to carry a full cup. We focus on what's in our cup. What's in your cup today?
That is why throughout our spiritual walk we must become poor in spirit. The Beatitudes in Matthew chapter 5 lays that out to us, and that is why, as you mature in the Christian life, you find that God often strips away from you the great strengths, the great values that you have, and He makes us weak. In weakness He humbles us because then His strength is made perfect in our weakness. That's a sermon for another day, but what we need to realise at the very outset of what the Lord is saying to us today is to beware of anything - no matter what it might be, it may be an intrinsic good thing or an evil thing - but whatever it is we must beware of anything that causes us to lose sight of our Lord Jesus Christ. If you do that in your Christian life, my friend, you will go far for Jesus - you will produce much fruit in the Kingdom. Beware of anything that would cause you to lose sight of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Where's your focus today? Where's your treasure? I guarantee you where your treasure is - there too is your focus!
"Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." Matt 6:19
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