A Treasured Possession
For thou art an holy people
unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people
unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.
Deuteronomy 7: 6
Shiver me timbers.
Have me eyes run a rig on this ol’ mind of mine? Or is that a hidden booty? Argh, hang the rib…it was only me
imagination.
I
have a very wild imagination and admit that the thrill of running across some
hidden booty of pirates has crossed my mind
more than once while playing at the shores.
It really isn’t any discouragement to my wild imaginings that pirates
burying treasure is based more in the imaginative mind of Robert Stevenson than
it is based in fact.
But maybe it isn’t so strange
this thrill/desire of mine, because our Abba desires a treasure too. Just in case you missed the obvious in the
above verse, I’m rewriting it here in the NIV translation…
For you are a people holy to
the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on
the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession.
Deuteronomy 7: 6
Did you catch that? Let me emphasis a point in fact…The Lord
your God has chosen you out of all the people on the face of the earth
to be his people, his treasured possession!
Though others may not
treasure you, it is to their loss. God
has spoken and what He has spoken is to say YOU ARE HIS TREASURED
POSSESSION!
When others overlook or
forget you, remember you are treasured of God.
When others see flaws, weakness, or one who is simply bothersome, God
sees a priceless treasure! When others
forget you, remember God has chosen you out of all the people on the face of
the earth to be His!
Jesus shared a parable in
which He spoke of you…
Again, the kingdom of heaven is
like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls: Who, when he had found one
pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.
Matthew 13: 45-46
Do
you see yourself in this parable? Not
as the merchant, but as a pearl of great price. I know most often I think of Jesus as the pearl of great price,
and that He is. But I want you to step
back and give this a thought…Jesus as the merchant man, you as the pearl of
great price. You see, you are His
treasured possession and Jesus gave all when He died on the cross, purchasing
us for Himself, redeeming us from our sins. You are His pearl of great price!
Abba how beyond my scope of
perception is Your love. Infinite
doesn’t begin to measure the width or depth of Your love for me. Though my heart is full to overflowing, You
continue to pour out your love upon me.
The words penned by Frederick M. Lehman do a much better job of
expressing to our finite minds Your love…
Could we with ink the ocean fill,
And were the skies of parchment made,
Were every stalk on earth a quill,
And every man a scribe by trade,
To write the love of God above,
Would drain the ocean dry.
Nor could the scroll contain the whole,
Though stretched from sky to sky.
Now the God of hope fill you with
all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power
of the Holy Ghost. Romans 15:13
Soli Deo Gloria