We live in a world that boasts about instant results in pretty much every sphere of life, but often those things pass away just as quickly. With technology at our fingertips, we make instant purchases. People do and say things (often ridiculous and shallow) on social media for an instant and fleeting moment of fame. Relationships have become almost disposable; with the swipe of your finger you can find someone new. People seem to have adopted an attitude of living in the moment without any thought of the future, much less the life to come.

While Jesus did say, “Don’t worry about tomorrow” (Matthew 6:34 NIV), when read in context with the rest of the chapter He was talking about not putting value on the things of this world and instead having faith in God.

In the same chapter Jesus says, “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also” (Matthew 6:19–21).

It is this treasure in heaven that will outlast all the things we work so hard for here on earth.

 How do we store up treasure in heaven? By investing in God’s kingdom.

Here are some scriptural ways to do that:

“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind” (Matthew 22:37).

“You shall love your neighbor as yourself” (Matthew 22:39).

“Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven” (Matthew 5:44–45).

Love is a key part of our treasure in heaven because, as the Bible says in 1 John 4:7–11: “Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.  Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.  In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. … Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.”

With God’s love in your heart, you will find real lasting treasure not only in heaven, but in your everyday life!