What Is Our Treasure In Heaven?

I have a question about treasure in heaven. What will it be will it be a house or mansion or gold or silver? We were having a discussion on this at church and wanted to know.

Q. Thank you so much for the help and for your ministry. I have a question about treasure in heaven. What will it be? Will it be a house or mansion or gold or silver? We were having a discussion on this at church and wanted to know. I thought just seeing God and living forever would be the ultimate treasure. But would love some scripture on this.

A. Beyond telling us that we should be storing up treasure in Heaven (Matt. 6:19-21) the Bible doesn’t explain what that treasure is. There are good reasons for this. One is that knowing what our treasure will be could create motives of greed in our minds that would disqualify us from receiving it. Another is that since it’s heavenly treasure, our earthly minds might not be able to understand the explanation of what it is. Like other things where the Lord is concerned, we’re to accept by faith that our heavenly treasure will be desirable, and store up as much as possible.

Since the Lord was advising us not to store up treasure on Earth, it seems like He was saying that we should use our earthly resources in ways that will benefit us in Heaven instead of just enriching our lives here. This could mean supporting the work of His Kingdom with money we earn in excess of our needs, or purposely taking work that pays enough to sustain us but leaves us time to volunteer our services on His behalf. For most of us that means also reducing our cost of living to a point where we can do one or the other.