Where Your Treasure Is, There Your Heart Will Be
Month 5: Kingdom Living (Part 2) · Memory Verse
Today's Scripture
Read together: Matthew 6:19-21
19 Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. 20 But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Memory Verse
“For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”— Matthew 6:21 (BSB)memorize this week
📖 Bible-in-a-Year (optional)
Today's reading: 2 Chronicles 28-31
Reading the whole Bible in a year — do this when you have extra time. (Around Day 122 of 365 — King Hezekiah reopens the temple and turns the nation's heart back to God.)The Heart of It
Today we slow down and tuck one short sentence deep into our hearts. "For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." It's only eleven words. But it's like a key that unlocks how the human heart really works. Most of us think our heart leads and our money follows. We figure that once we feel love for something, then we'll spend on it. But Jesus says it runs the other way too. Put your treasure somewhere, and your heart will travel there to keep it company. That's why memorizing this verse matters so much. It gives every one of us a question to carry for the rest of our lives. "Where am I sending my treasure? And is that where I want my heart to go?"
To memorize it well, picture it. Imagine a treasure chest. Right beside it is a little heart on a leash, tied to the lid. Wherever you drag the chest, the heart bumps along behind it. Now read the verse three times. Go slower each time, and let everyone say it back. Children remember what they can see and say. So make it playful. Make it active. And don't worry about getting it perfect on the first day. The goal isn't a performance. The goal is planting living words in growing hearts, where the Holy Spirit can water them for years to come.
Around the Table
Let's learn a tiny verse! "Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." Your heart goes wherever you put your love.
Let's do it: March around the room "carrying" a pretend treasure chest. Everyone follows behind you. That's your heart following your treasure!
Try the verse with motions. Cup your hands like a chest for "treasure." Then put both hands on your heart for "heart." Say it three times, a little faster each round.
Let's talk: Can you think of one true thing this verse tells us about ourselves?
Memorizing isn't just for points. It's loading truth into your heart so the Spirit can hand it back to you right when you need it ().
Let's go deeper: Write the verse from memory. Then journal one sentence: "This week my treasure has mostly been ______."
💬 Conversation Starter
What's a song or jingle you'll never forget? Why do you think it stuck in your head? And how could we make this verse stick the same way?
🛡️ Defending the Faith
Some people claim the Bible was changed so much we can't trust its words. But we have thousands of ancient copies of the Gospels. They agree on Jesus' teaching with remarkable consistency. That includes these very words from the Sermon on the Mount. The verse we memorize today is the same one Jesus spoke.
For Dad · Go Deeper
Scripture memory is one of the highest-return, lowest-cost investments a father can make in his children's souls. And yet it's quietly dying in many Christian homes. doesn't ask for a polished classroom. It pictures a parent talking about God's words while walking, sitting, lying down, and rising up. The aim is not rote recall for its own sake. The aim is hiding the Word in the heart "that I might not sin against You" (). Memorized truth becomes ammunition in temptation, comfort in fear, and worship in joy. Your kids will forget most of what you say this year. But a few well-planted verses can outlive you. So pick the verse. Repeat it daily without pressure. Then let consistency do the slow, deep work.
Draws on: Andrew Davis, An Approach to Extended Memorization of Scripture.
Let's Pray Together
"Father, thank You for giving us Your words. Help our family keep them deep in our hearts. Help us live by them. Send Your Spirit to bring them back to us when we need them most. In Jesus' name, amen."
A verse I hide in my heart today becomes the Spirit's tool in my heart tomorrow.