Storing Up Treasures!

Friday, June 20, 2025

2 Cor 11:18, 21-30; Mt 6:19-23

Today’s Gospel enlightens us with storing up treasures in heaven. 

Four important points invite our consideration.

1. From Jesus’ exposition, we understand that storing up treasures has more to do with the ‘place’ that we have imagined as our storehouse. In fact, it is the place that determines what kind of treasure we store up there. If the place is heaven, our treasures will be eternal, and if not, they will just be material, which always runs the risk of being destroyed or stolen. 

2. The place we decide to store up our treasure also shows that we imagine it as the place of our ‘security and value.’ When we find heaven as our security and value, we make it our haven by storing up our treasures there. Whereas attaching undue value and security to material possessions will change our decision accordingly. Jesus wants us to ask ourselves if heaven is our haven.

3. Storing up treasures speaks more about the ‘person’ too. If the person deeply desires God, the person chooses heaven as the preferred place to store up his/her treasures. A person who trusts in God’s provision thinks more of the heavenly treasures as opposed to the person who cannot think beyond this world. Hence, where we end up is determined more by us than by God. 

4. In this regard, the eye as the lamp of the body is more significant. The figurative meaning of ‘eye’ could be focus or clarity, and a bad eye can mean greed or spiritual blindness. We allow the eye to act as the lamp of the body when we decide to store up our treasures in heaven. When we do not, we lose sight of something of precious value. 

Let us pray that we may always prefer heaven as the place to store up our treasures. 

Fr. Dhinakaran Savariyar