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“For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”
— Matthew 6:21
This statement of Jesus is absolute. It does not say “might be,” or “should be,” but “will be.” Your treasure determines the direction of your heart. Your heart never leads your treasure; your treasure leads your heart.
Immediately after this, Jesus adds another central statement:
> “The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light.
> But if your eyes are unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness.
> If then the light in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!”
> — Matthew 6:22–23
The song “Treasures of the Heart (v3)” simply puts into lyrical form the central teaching of Jesus in this passage:
Everything in the Christian life flows from the heart and from focus. Satan knows this. That is why he fights to control what you value and what you look at—your priorities and your attention. Jesus, in this passage, confronts both.
Let us see what the Word of God says in its original setting, and what it demands from us.
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These words come from the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5–7), the most concentrated body of Jesus’ teaching. He is not speaking to unbelieving crowds only; He is training disciples in the life of the Kingdom.
### The immediate context
Matthew 6 focuses on three core issues:
1. Religious practice (almsgiving, prayer, fasting) – not as show, but before the Father in secret.
2. Treasure and loyalty – where you store treasure, where you focus, whom you serve.
3. Anxiety and trust – whether you live as orphans or as children who have a heavenly Father.
Jesus moves from secret devotion (prayer, fasting, giving) to secret orientation (treasure, focus, masters). He exposes that God is not only concerned with what we *do*, but what we *value* and what we *see*.
Right before Matthew 6:21, Jesus says:
> “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.
> But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.”
> — Matthew 6:19–20
He is speaking in a very concrete economic culture. Treasure meant real value: food, clothing, gold, property. To “store up” meant deliberate investment, not casual possession.
Then after Matthew 6:21–23, He continues:
> “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other,
> or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other.
> You cannot serve both God and mammon.”
> — Matthew 6:24 (mammon = wealth, riches personified)
So in this section Jesus addresses three linked realities:
1. Treasure – what you accumulate and pursue.
2. Vision – what you focus on and look at.
3. Master – whom you actually serve.
The song captures the first two: treasure and vision (“Keep your heart fixed on heaven—let your eyes be clear and single”).
We must see this as a spiritual battlefield. The world, the flesh, and the devil all aim to:
Jesus gives, not a suggestion, but a command strategy for victory:
Store up treasure in heaven; fix your inner vision; keep your heart anchored above.
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### 1) “Treasure” – *thēsauros* (θησαυρός)
In Matthew 6:21:
> “For where your treasure (*thēsauros*) is, there your heart will be also.”
*Thēsauros* means more than just a pile of money. It is a storehouse, a treasury, a place of accumulated valuables. It is related to our English word “thesaurus” – a storehouse of words.
The idea is deliberate storage and accumulation toward a purpose. Your treasure is what you:
This includes money, but also time, energy, relationships, reputation, and mental focus. Wherever you consistently deposit these, that is your *thēsauros*.
The song reflects this precisely:
> “Store up treasures in heaven—
> your heart will follow there.”
If you consistently deposit your time, resources, thoughts, and obedience into heavenly purposes, your heart cannot remain on earth. It will be pulled upward.
### 2) “Healthy” / “Single” Eye – *haplous* (ἁπλοῦς)
Matthew 6:22:
> “If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light.”
The Greek word is *haplous*. It literally means “single,” “simple,” “undivided,” “without folds.” It is the opposite of being double, mixed, or compromised.
In other contexts, a related word group speaks of generosity and sincerity—an undivided, open-hearted posture (cf. Romans 12:8, James 1:5).
So a “healthy” eye is:
By contrast, “unhealthy” in verse 23 uses the word *ponēros*—evil, wicked, corrupt, diseased. An “evil” eye in Jewish idiom is a stingy, envious, covetous eye (cf. Proverbs 23:6, Matthew 20:15).
The lyrics say:
> “Keep your heart fixed on heaven—
> let your eyes be clear and single.”
That is *haplous*. Clear, single, undivided. The song is calling us to a single, heavenly focus, which fills the whole inner life with light.
When your eye is single and your treasure is heavenly, your whole inner world comes into order under God’s rule.
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### Stanza 1–2
> “For where your treasure is,
> there your heart will be also.
>
> Where your treasure is,
> there your heart will be also.
> Store up treasures in heaven—
> your heart will follow there.”
Jesus here is revealing a spiritual law. Just as gravity pulls downward, treasure pulls the heart. You cannot violate this law.
#### 1) The heart is not neutral
In Scripture, the heart (*kardia*) is the central control of your life—mind, will, and emotions together (Proverbs 4:23). It is not a passive observer. It is always moving toward some object of trust, love, or fear.
But Jesus shows us: the heart does not choose direction in isolation. It follows treasure.
Colossians 3:1–2 commands:
> “Set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
> Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.”
How do you “set” your heart above? By shifting your treasure above.
That is where your heart will *inevitably* move.
#### 2) Heavenly treasure defined
Heavenly treasure is anything done in obedience to God, in faith, in love, that has eternal value. Scripture gives examples:
Every time you choose obedience over convenience, generosity over greed, love over self, you are making deposits into a heavenly account. And every deposit tugs your heart upward.
The lyric is theological truth in simple form:
“Store up treasures in heaven—your heart will follow there.”
### Stanza 3–4
> “The eye is the lamp of the body.
> If your eyes are healthy,
> your whole body will be full of light.
>
> But if your eyes are unhealthy,
> your whole body will be full of darkness.
> If then the light in you is darkness,
> how great is that darkness!”
Now Jesus moves from treasure to vision. Treasure governs the direction of the heart; the eye governs the condition of the inner life.
#### 1) The eye as a lamp
“The eye is the lamp of the body.” The eye is like the gateway of perception. Through it, either light or darkness enters.
If the central faculty that is supposed to bring light is corrupted, the entire inner life is permeated with darkness. “How great is that darkness!”
This is why Satan so fiercely contests what you look at—physically and mentally.
Conversely:
The spiritual eye is your focus—what you allow to occupy your inner gaze.
#### 2) Spiritual warfare over your focus
2 Corinthians 4:4 says:
> “The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers,
> so that they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ…”
Satan’s main weapon is blindness. He blinds minds. He does not need to remove the gospel; he just needs to obscure it from view.
For believers, he attempts to:
Jesus says, in effect: if you let your inner eye be corrupted, the darkness will be total. Even what you *call* “light” (your opinions, judgments, justifications) will actually be darkness.
This explains many spiritual problems:
Often the root is not a lack of information, but a corrupt eye—a divided, impure, covetous focus.
### Stanza 5
> “Keep your heart fixed on heaven—
> let your eyes be clear and single.”
Here the song moves from description to command. Two imperatives:
1. Keep your heart fixed on heaven.
2. Let your eyes be clear and single (*haplous*).
#### 1) A fixed heart
Psalm 57:7 (KJV):
> “My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise.”
To have a fixed heart is to have a settled direction. You have decided your treasure is in heaven. You have renounced the rule of mammon. You have chosen God’s will above comfort or recognition.
Hebrews 12:1–2 gives the New Testament expression:
> “…let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us,
> fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith…”
A fixed heart is a heart that has taken its stand. It does not negotiate every day whether to obey or not. The main decision is settled: I am living for Christ and for eternity.
#### 2) A single eye
A “clear and single” eye means:
James 1:8 describes the opposite:
> “A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways.”
The single eye produces stability and clarity. The double eye produces confusion and instability.
When heart and eye work together—treasure in heaven, heart fixed above, eye single—your whole inner being becomes full of light, and your life becomes aligned with the Kingdom.
### Final Refrain
> “Where your treasure is,
> there your heart will be also.
> Store up treasures in heaven—
> your heart will follow there.”
The song returns to Jesus’ central law to bring this to a point of decision.
You cannot bypass this. You cannot pray your heart into heaven while you keep your treasure on earth. You move your treasure; your heart comes after. That is how Jesus says the spiritual life works.
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We must respond in concrete ways. This is not theory; it is discipleship. Here are four practical steps.
### 1) Examine and relocate your treasure
First, we must submit to honest examination.
Ask the Holy Spirit:
These answers reveal your treasure.
Then, deliberately relocate your treasure toward heaven:
The more you act, the more your heart will move. Do not wait to “feel” heavenly; start investing heavenly, and your heart will follow as Jesus promised.
### 2) Cleanse and focus your “eye”
Second, we must deal with what we choose to look at.
Ask:
Then take decisive action:
At the same time, positively fill your vision with:
Your “eye” is not only what you avoid but what you deliberately behold.
### 3) Break alliance with mammon; choose God as Master
Third, we must settle the master issue.
Jesus says plainly:
> “You cannot serve God and mammon.” (Matthew 6:24)
You cannot have two ultimate loyalties. Mammon is not neutral wealth; it is wealth under demonic influence, demanding trust and service.
To shift masters:
1 Timothy 6:17–19 shows how:
> “Command those who are rich…not to be arrogant nor to put their hope in wealth…but to put their hope in God…
> Command them to do good, to be rich in good deeds, and to be generous and willing to share.
> In this way they will lay up treasure for themselves as a firm foundation for the
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