19 “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, 20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
22 “The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, 23 but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
24 “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money. (Matthew 6)
Jesus had just given us instructions on how to pray, including an expression of dependence on God to know and provide for what we need. He knows our tendency to live by want rather than need. He also knows our tendency to not trust God to provide, and thus pile up reserves beyond necessity, in case He bails on His promises. These tendencies lead to our slavery to stuff, where we trust in stuff rather than Him; we live life for stuff rather than Him. At first glance, the middle paragraph above may seem out of place, stuck in between the two we have referred to in an awkward way. But it really is the heart, the meat of the sandwich. It is the lust of the eyes - we see and we want, that we are seeking to fulfull, but we find the stuff sandwich unfulfilling, leaving us empty and enslaved to the stuff we pursue. Sad to say, that is where we find many professing believers in our society - slaves to seeking stuff instead of trusting and serving God. Is that you? It's time to stop eating stuff sandwiches and come to His table to be filled, trusting Him, seeking Him, serving Him.
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