Hidden Treasure

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Hidden Treasure

 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels… (2 Corinthians 4:7 – NASB)

“This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you. (John 15:12 – NASB)

Few searches for hidden treasure have a more fascinating or tragic history that that of Oak Island on the south shore of Nova Scotia, Canada. The costly and futile search for treasure, resulting in loss of life and shattered dreams, over more than two hundred years, continues even today. Oak Island surely has few parallels in the history of man’s lust for gold. There is no space to tell the story here, but those interested can follow it at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Island

The story of Oak Island, however, has value as a parable of seeking treasure in the wrong places. I put it to you that there are treasures all around us that most eyes are too blind to see. I speak of the people with whom we rub shoulders with every day. The value of one human soul would have been enough for Jesus to shed his blood on the cross to redeem that one soul.

If we would take the time to invest our lives in people in Christ’s name, we would discover treasure beyond our wildest imaginings; we would discover not only how much God loves people, but also how much love God will give to those who dare to love people the way He does.eH

The diamond mines of Kimberly, South Africa, were discovered when a farmer found his neighbour’s children playing marbles with some “stones” they had gathered from the ground.

The children had no idea of the wealth in diamonds they were holding in their hands, and banging one against another in a game of marbles.

God wants us to stop considering people (for whom Christ died) as mere pieces to be manipulated in the game of life. He wants us to see them as the treasures they really are, worth investing everything we have to bring them to God.

I was Blind

(© Sunday 30th November 2014 – by Christopher Shennan)

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels… (2 Corinthians 4:7 – NASB)

I was blind.

At least, my eyes could only see

Those treasures that would last for time;

I longed for them and gave my all

In the hope they’d someday – be mine.

I was blind.

I could not see the treasure in

The ones who walked beside me;

I took them all for granted then,

And had no true love to guide me.

I’m not blind anymore…

For Christ has touched my eyes and made

Me see His treasures all around;

They’re the people who cross my path,

And these treasures – at last – I’ve found.

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