Where Is Your Treasure?

"Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:

"But lay up for yourselves treasures 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."

Matthew 6:19–21.

Illustrations by Dilleen Marsh

Notes

1. See, for example, Karen Kersting, "Driving teen egos—and buying—through 'branding,'" Monitor on Psychology: A Publication of the American Psychological Association, vol. 35, no. 6 (2004): 60.

2. Trends and Tudes (newsletter for Harris Interactive, Jan. 2007), 7; available at www.harrisinteractive.com.

3. Thomas S. Monson, "An Attitude of Gratitude," Ensign, Feb. 2000, 2.

4. Gordon B. Hinckley, "A Prophet's Counsel and Prayer for Youth," New Era, Jan. 2001, 8.

5. See, for example, Tim Kasser, The High Price of Materialism (2002); and Tori DeAngelis, "Consumerism and its discontents," Monitor on Psychology, vol. 35, no. 6 (2004): 52.

6. Joseph B. Wirthlin, "The Abundant Life," Ensign, May 2006, 101.

7. See Moniek Buijzen, "Parental mediation of undesired advertising effects," Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, vol. 49, no. 2 (2005): 153.