The Lord Jesus in our opening scripture lets us know how to keep and invest resources or treasures with the utmost security and surety on returns. This is spiritual wisdom. If your resources are not connected to God’s kingdom they lack eternal value. When you serve and honor God with your financial and material resources, you are laying up treasures in heaven. Firstly, you are putting it in a most secure place. In other words there is no loss. This is like a spiritual insurance policy. The things that affect the economies of this world don’t affect these treasures laid up in heaven. Inflation doesn’t have effect on the treasures laid up in heaven. Inflation is like the moths and vermin that Jesus mentions in our theme scripture which degrade the value of the resources. There is no depreciation with treasures laid up in heaven. 1 Peter 1:4 describes our inheritance to be beyond the reach of change and decay.

Secondly, when these treasures are laid up in heaven, they trigger multiplication. This means there is accrued interest on the spiritual deposit. Proverbs 3:9-10 (NCV) sheds light on this: “Honor the Lord with your wealth and the first-fruits from all your crops. Then your barns will be full, and your wine barrels will overflow with new wine”. This is the secret of living in the overflow of material and financial resources. Building up from our previous article, laying up treasures in heaven is a key principle in walking in financial and material abundance. Don’t allow anyone or anything discourage you from giving into God’s work. Your giving is seed which multiplies back to you in harvest by God’s power. 2 Corinthians 9:6 (NCV) declares: “The person who plants a little will have a small harvest, but the person who plants a lot will have a big harvest”. Let your life be characterized by big harvests of resources as you continue to lay up more treasures in heaven by giving more into the Kingdom of God.