What is Stored in Your Heart? - 8th Sunday in OT

Jesus doesn’t talk about things we store in our junk drawers. Instead, He talks about the things we store up in our heart (beliefs, prejudices, attitudes, habits, grudges, emotions); however, He doesn’t speak of them as junk. Instead, the Lord speaks of them as seeds--as seeds in a garden. These seeds don’t just lie dormant in the dark, collecting dust. According to Jesus, the things we store up in our hearts start to grow, and push through to the surface of our lives through our words and our actions. The question is not whether we will produce fruit in our lives or not. Bearing fruit is inevitable. Inescapable. The question is what kind of fruit will we bear from the storehouse of our heart, and how will it affect the world around us?