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Friday Focus, 19 June 2026

 

‘Vision And Light’: What Do You Treasure?

Today’s Gospel from Matthew 6.19-23 contains two related teachings. 

The first ‘Store Up Treasure In Heaven’ is about the things which are valuable — things which really count.

We live in a highly materialistic world where large numbers of people seem to believe that material wealth is the solution to every problem. There is nothing that money cannot buy—no problem it cannot solve. This belief prevails even though every day it is shown to be false.

Jesus urges us to put our trust and our security in something less perishable — something more lasting.

To ‘store up treasure in heaven’ is not just to pile up a whole lot of ‘good works’ which will be to our credit in the next life. That credit can be quickly lost. It is more a question of growing more into the kind of person who is steeped in the values and the outlook of the gospel.

It is less a question of doing than of becoming.

We also build treasure by what we give away, by sharing with others whatever gifts we —especially with those most in need. 

And so, we need to ask ourselves: where is my treasure? What do I value most in life? And how do I reveal that in the way I live?

The second teaching, “The Eye Is The Lamp Of The Body,” is connected to the first.

The person who cannot see beyond money, status, power, or fame is truly in darkness. Life is not about getting things.

Life is about who we are; it is about love and relationships.

Let us pray today for vision and light — to be able to discern what are the real treasures, the most precious things of human living.

In that way, our life truly becomes a Christian life.

Norman+