We finished our series “Treasure” this Sunday at The Community Fellowship. We have examined many things that get in the way of treasuring what God treasures. That is why I challenge us to see as God sees, to hold what God holds and to spend as much time as possible with God.
What have you found true about God? When comparing all you have compiled in your life, how do those things and those people compare to God? Be honest. Not all of us have had the same experience.
Joshua 24:15 NASB
But if it is disagreeable in your sight to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves today whom you will serve: whether the gods which your fathers served, which were beyond the Euphrates River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living; but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”
The choice is yours and mine. We get the opportunity to choose God and to hold as most important what God says.
There are many choices we can make. There are many different things that people treasure. Most likely in our lives, yours and mine, we have treasured things or people that have not made us better. They are things that don’t last very long. Well, they may last a year or a few years, but they won’t last for eternity.
Choosing Jesus is an eternal choice. This treasure goes beyond the here and not to the then and there and forever which is huge. May we be found treasuring what God treasured.
Paul’s life was radically changed. The following verses let us see a little in to his thinking and in to what he treasured after making some difficult and powerful choices.
Galatians 2:20-21 NIV
I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. 21 I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!”
Christ lives in and through me. His grace give me the treasure that lasts beyond anything else. Trust God and treasure what He treasurers.
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