For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Luke 12:34

“The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.”[1]

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. That’s important. You might want to write it down.

I’ll say it again: The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. It’s one of those seemingly self-evident rules that is absolutely essential if you want to succeed at anything. My Uncle John had a colorful way of illustrating the essential truth of it.

Uncle John, my mother’s youngest brother, was sort of the bad egg of our family, the prodigal, the miscreant, and a man about whom will you probably hear many stories in my sermons. He was an alcoholic and a roustabout. He bragged that his poor choices had never landed him in prison and he had only …