November 6
Treasure in Heaven’s bank
“Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also” (Matt. 6:19-21).
There is such a thing as laying up as truly in Heaven as there is laying up on earth; if it were not so, our Lord would not have said so. Just as persons put one sum after another into the bank, and it is put down to their credit, and they may use the money, afterwards; so truly the penny, the shilling, the pound, the hundred pounds, the ten thousand pounds given, for the Lord’s sake and constrained by the love of Jesus, to poor brethren, or in any way spent in the work of God, He marks down in the book of remembrance. He considers it is laid up in Heaven. The money is not lost, it is laid up in the bank of Heaven; yet so that whilst an earthly bank may break, or through earthly circumstances we may lose our earthly possessions, the money which is thus secured in Heaven cannot be lost.