This morning I was thinking about the greatest treasure I have. I realized that the greatest treasure I have is God. I also realized that I don't always act like that is true. If I believe God, Jesus in my heart, is my greatest treasure than how will I act? What will matter the most to me?
He will! What He thinks, what He wants, what is important to Him is what will be the most important to me. And how do I know what He thinks, wants, requires of me? I have to know Him. Yet how do I know a God who is invisible, who no one has seen? His attributes are first revealed to everyone in creation- everything that was created was created by God. Then Jesus, who is God, came to earth to reveal God to us. As a child I learned stories about Jesus. I learned of God who loved me so much that He came to earth as a baby, despised and rejected by men, to suffer and die on a cross because He loves me so much! So I saw God outside my window, in His creation, and then I learned of God as I looked at Jesus. Once I choose to believe, to accept Jesus into my heart as the One True Living God, I was given The Helper, the Holy Spirit, to guide me, teach me, lead me into all truth about God. I am led to the Truth, but I must know the Truth. If I truly treasure God in my heart, nothing is more important than knowing Him. My life then becomes about knowing Him. I pursue Him as He pursues me. I seek Him with all my heart. There is no cost too great as He is my greatest treasure. I need to believe the Truth. I need to act on the Truth. I need faith. Thank God He provides - "Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God." The more I hear of God, the more I know Him. The more I know Him, the more I am drawn to Him. He becomes my greatest treasure not only in belief, but in action. He Who always was and is becomes in reality to me my very life. How I long for this even as I live differently. Thank God He draws me ever nearer, refusing to let me go.
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