Treasures of Great Price

I know I’m not the only person in deep prayer for the revival of our country to the defense of fading freedoms and unfair justice. In light of the recent revelations of truth in actual written documents, I think the prayerful can shout hallelujah and give thanks for answered pray. Don’t ever think you can’t help this country because you're not a politician. This country was built on the foundation of Biblical principles and God is still in charge.

A young college student left his backpack in a public place and walked off. A homeless person found the backpack and rummaged through it, finding a laptop and an envelope. The envelope contained $3,300.00 in cash! The homeless person, to their credit, turned the backpack into the police who located the rightful owner. Well done! The homeless person gets an “A+” for integrity. However, the student gets an “F” for vigilance. How does a student forget an expensive laptop and $3,300 in cash and walk off? Most of us cannot afford such a loss. What was he thinking? November 10, 2011, the Miami Herald reported; “Employees at the dump yard in Pompano Beach, Florida gave Brian McGuinn zero chance of ever finding the custom-designed ring he had given his wife, but accidently tossed into his trash at home October 30^th. Facing nine tons of 10-foot-high rotten eggs, dirty diapers and other disgusting garbage (which made him vomit before he got started digging), he actually found the ring within thirty minutes.” Some things are priceless! And we are willing to do almost anything to retrieve that which we have lost, like sifting through rotten garbage to find a custom-designed ring. As human beings we tend to place infinite value on objects; of course it’s not so much the objects that are valuable, but the sentiments and meaning attached to those objects. It’s those things that cannot be replaced if lost; those are the things that are truly priceless. I’m sure that the custom-designed ring came at a price, but the thoughtfulness behind the ring, the thing that the ring represents, that’s what makes it priceless.

[Matthew 13:44-46] “The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field. Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls. When he found one of great value, he went away and sold everything he had and bought it.” The gospel is one of those priceless things in life. Man has done an outstanding job of trying to replace the truth, but nothing is worth as much as the priceless message of salvation. The gospel and our obedience to the gospel is what will get us to heaven. By the way, heaven is another of those things which are priceless. Much like Brian McGuinn’s search for his wife’s one-of-a-kind and priceless ring, the merchant went in search of a pearl that was so valuable nothing could compare to it. And Jesus tells us, like that pearl of great price, heaven is truly priceless. It is something we should do everything in our power to possess and never let it out of our sight. Yet, like the college student, people often thoughtlessly walk off to play, leaving the pearl of great price behind. It seems when we have great treasure in our possession we are incline to lose sight of its value. So, how valuable is heaven to you? What would you do in order to spend eternity there? Would you search out the truth, no matter the cost, and once you found it would you rejoice and hold it dear and never let it be lost from you again? Take care of your treasure in Christianity. Don’t leave it carelessly open to theft or corruption (2 John 7-11). PRAY!