Devotional: Treasure

I have treasured your word in my heart so that I may not sin against you.
Psalms 119:11 CSB

From bible.com

I have an old bible that I had received as a young teenager that keep in a cubby on my desk. In this old bible I have a card. It is a condolences card I got from the vet when my first cat had died. The card meant a lot to me, I loved that cat. Every now and then I look at it and remember my cat, her name was Thomasina. I keep this card so that I can use it to trigger those memories of her and keep my love for her a little longer in my heart.

Deep in our hearts is where we store things that we never want to forget. The things that mean the most to us. The psalmist wrote that he kept God's word in his heart, he treasured it, he didn't want to forget. God's word is the most important treasure there ever could be. It is a treasure of life, love and peace. In Christianity we know that God's Word is Jesus. And nothing more than Him deserves a place hidden in our hearts. If we keep Jesus there, remembering often, we can keep His love in our hearts longer. We can learn to keep it there, center of our hearts, and when we do, it will begin to overflow into the world. If we let so much overflow, there can be no denying God's love for the whole world.

"We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.”
— Thornton Wilder