Clothing, hobbies, Apple products, books, businesses, animals, televisions - all nothing compared with our Christ. Beautiful, expensive cars are as nothing. Everlasting life in and with him is simply and undeniably worth more than anything else we can buy or build or obtain here on earth.

If we don’t love and treasure Jesus like this, then we don’t know him. He said goodbye to it all in an instant, and he did so because he could see what he would gain would far surpass everything he’d ever owned up until that point. He sacrificed things he had made, gifts that had been given to him, possessions he’d had for years and years. He gave up his home, his furniture, his livestock - anything that had any value. The man sold everything to have this treasure. The point of the parable is to highlight the infinite, precious worth of knowing Jesus and being known by him.

So he sold everything he had so that he would have enough money to buy the field.Įverything. How can I have this treasure? What do I have to give or do to own and experience and spend this treasure forever? That was the man’s response, and he knew he had to own the field to have the treasure. He had discovered a lifetime’s worth of wealth, just lying unguarded, unclaimed in his path. He never expected to find random riches in a field, but he did. He probably didn’t know what he’d found at first. He’s walking through the field and stumbles on something unusual, something out of place. One of Jesus’s parables in Matthew’s Gospel follows a man into a field. But have you ever thought of Christ as your Treasure? Fewer are ready to have him as the Lord of their life, leading and growing them in godliness. Lots of people are completely content to have Jesus as a Savior, forgiving them of all their sin. Then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field. The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up.

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