Most of us have been spending most of our time at home during these lockdown weeks, obeying the instruction to 'stay home'. Over the years, I've moved a number of times and made my home in a number of places but have not always felt 'at home'. As the saying goes, 'home is where your heart is' and I know that when I have felt most at home it has been because my heart has been in it, I've been sure of being in the right place for the right reason. Jesus raises an important question about our hearts. We say, home is where your heart is and Jesus asks us, but where is your heart? He puts it like this, 'Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also' (Matthew 6:21). In other words, that which you value most, or which has your loyalty and governs your priorities in life gives away something about your inner self and what makes you tick. By nature, we treasure the things of this world and tend to think life consists of what we are, have or do, or of having a name or status or influence. Such an inner life drives our outer life and what we try to do with our life. The trouble is that this 'storing up for ourselves treasures on earth' betrays the fact that we are in fact spiritually lifeless and far away from God. Our view of life is inverted, dimmed by worldliness and utterly in error about what is of ultimate importance. Getting to the point, the problem with that is that if your heart is given over to the things of this world, then you are so at home here that there will be no home for you with God when you die and have to leave behind the treasures of earth. What you possessed and lived for in a few short years on earth will be irrelevant in the aeons awaiting you in an unending existence under the wrath of God. 

How much better to pay attention to Jesus and to store up for yourself everlasting treasures in heaven (Matthew 6:19-21). That sort of life begins by repenting of your sin and trusting in Jesus to receive forgiveness, to be given a new and spiritually alive heart and a new life with Him, a life that will continue on in complete joy and satisfaction for the everlasting aeons to come. Home for the Christian is not in this world, but with God in heaven and the world to come, where the Christian's heart truly is to be found.