For Christmas when I was eight my dad gave me Treasure Island by Robert Lewis Stevenson. I loved it. I also received Robinson Caruso by Daniel Defoe. I didn’t love it. I didn’t even like it. The idea of treasure hunting infatuates us. Is there any of us who has not dreamed of finding a treasure cave filled with unimaginable riches? In the 1800’s over 100,000 people rushed to California for gold. The ones like Levi Strauss, who sold supplies and clothes to the prospectors, were the smart ones. That treasure is still producing gold.
Romans 11:33 is our map to riches untold. These riches are not limited to planet earth. They are found in the universe. “Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out!” And Jesus said in Luke 12:33, “Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide purses for yourselves that will not wear out, a treasure in heaven that will never fail, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys.” And of course Malachi 3:10, “Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the LORD Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it.”
Obviously we are not talking about BMW’s and Cadillacs. We are talking about eternal treasures – the very best kind. One of my favorite authors, when writing about prayer says, “Prayer is the key in the hand of faith to unlock heaven’s storehouse, where are treasured the boundless resources of Omnipotence.” When I was a boy I wanted to know the whats. Now I want to know the whys. Jesus promises if we “seek we will find.”
Written by Roger Bothwell on July 16, 2013
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