Charles Spurgeon Commentary Matthew 6:21

"for where thy treasure is, there will thy heart be also." — Matthew 6:21 (ASV)

For where your treasure is there will your heart be also.

It is sure to be so: your heart will follow your treasure. Send it away therefore up to the everlasting hills; lay up treasure in that blessed land before you go there yourself.

This is a grand moral motive for keeping our desires above groveling objects. The heart must and will go in the direction of that which we count precious. The whole man will be transformed into the likeness of that for which he lives. Where we place our treasures, our thoughts will naturally fly.

It will be wise to let all that we have act as magnets to draw us in the right direction. If our very best things are in heaven, our very best thoughts will fly in the same direction, but if our choicest possessions are of the earth, our heart will be earth-bound.