Where your treasure is,
there your heart will be also.
—Matthew 6:21
In Matthew 6:19–20, Jesus contrasts the durability of two treasures: earthly and heavenly. The earthly is fragile and temporary; the heavenly is rock solid and eternal.
Scripture does not forbid ownership of possessions. On the contrary, it endorses copying the ant for storing in the summer the food it will need in the winter, declares that the believer who makes no provision for family is worse than an unbeliever, and encourages the enjoyment of resources (Prv 6:6–8; 1 Tm 5:8; Eccl 8:15). What it forbids is greed and the fantasy that life consists in the abundance of possessions (Lk 12:15).
Materialism is seductive. Jesus’ teaching is not a prohibition of possessions but an admonition about priorities, for, as the next verse informs, “Where your treasure is, there your heart will be.”
Don’t get so caught up in the here and now
that you lose sight of the there and then.