Where is my heart?

Today I was reading about the Savior's visit to the Nephites. After speaking about the importance of sincerity in our fasting and prayer he said the following:

"Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where amoth and rust doth corrupt, and thieves break through and steal; But lay up for yourselves atreasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also" (3 Nephi 13: 19-21).

As I was reading this I realized that sometimes it is easy to get caught up in the things of the world. I believe that it is easy to be a person who goes through the motions of doing what you are supposed to do without really having your heart in it. True discipleship is having our heart set on those Heavenly treasures. Helaman gave us a great way to determine if something is a treasure of the world or a treasure of heaven. The treasures of heaven are those things "which [are] eternal, and which fadeth not away; " (Helaman 5:8).

I love the end of summer because fall camp has started and college football season is just around the corner. As enjoyable as it is, football does not fit the definition of "eternal" and "fadeth not away." If my heart is set on football, then I can't have it set on by treasure in heaven. That is not to say that everything we do in life has to be spiritual in nature, simply that we must make sure that our hearts are with the things of eternal worth and the other things become secondary.

This point was really driven home by some things that were said in the Oquirrh Mountain Temple dedication services this afternoon. Elder M. Russell Ballard said, "It is important to do all we can to schedule regular temple attendance to show the Lord our faith. We must guard against Lucifer interfering with us participating in temple work." I really liked that he said to schedule temple attendance. If we schedule it, then it becomes so much easier to do. President Monson, along similar lines said, "In our homes we have rooms for eating, rooms for sleeping, rooms for watching TV and other entertainment. We must not forget to have room for the Savior. In our lives we have room for golf, for movies and for other entertaining things, but are we making time for Jesus Christ?" There are so many blessings that come from making room for Jesus Christ. The greatest thing about laying up treasure for ourselves in heaven is that we do not have to wait to enjoy that treasure. We can have it both now and throughout eternity. That treasure comes because living the gospel of Jesus Christ provides us happiness greater than we can obtain by any other method. But to enjoy that treasure, we must have our hearts set upon it. If our hearts are set on other things, we cannot obtain.