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. When we went to a church in Longmont yesterday, the visiting pastor said something that caught my attention, concerning the verse above. Christians often take this verse in the wrong context. They think that God is telling them to take God's gift, give up everything and work to buy that gift. But instead, this what this pastor thought Jesus meant. God is the man who found the treasure. What does that make us, then? How do we fit into this equation? We're the treasure. When God found us, he was so overjoyed that he gave all he had to buy us and to save us. Why were we hidden in the first place? Why would someone throw away treasure? Maybe that treasure didn't look like a treasure. Maybe it was maimed or tarnished. Maybe we were too buried in sin, our past, ourselves. But Jesus came and saw the potential in our potential and paid his only son to obtain...us. His treasure.
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About Me!Hannah writes to satisfy her imagination. She's written six books so far--five of which need to be rewritten--and is working on a seventh. She ranges through a variety of genres, but favors contemporary YA, fixing broken characters. She wants to use her writing to change people and bring hope. She's currently going to college for Nursing and that takes up most of her writing time. She's a rather stereotypical writer, talking to imaginary friends, eavesdropping on people at the store, secretly being nosy, stashing herself away in her room with a paper and pen and chocolate and her teddy bear. She loves Jesus, the way the morning smells, her family of seven (four siblings), old movies, fairy tales, candles at night and helping people. She writes on another blog at nerdywriter.blogspot.com to hopefully build her chances of publication. My Author Site:Archives
December 2016
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