Treasure

“The Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure that a man discovered hidden in a field. In his excitement, he hid it again and sold everything he owned to get enough money to buy the field.
“Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a merchant on the lookout for choice pearls. When he discovered a pearl of great value, he sold everything he owned and bought it!

Matthew 13:44-46

What is God's kingdom worth to you? It is all about what you believe about this kingdom. If God is the great bell-boy in the sky and only gives gifts to those who tip enough, the kingdom of God is probably not worth all that much. If God is the caring Creator of the universe, the lover of our souls, beautiful, loving, kind, expansive, creative and we get to be those things also when we live in connection to our Creator, then the kingdom of God is worth everything to you. I had someone say to my yesterday that they have really practice the things we have talked about as far as noticing what they think and changing it to really believe and know something different about God and it has changed their life.

Are you ready to give you life away to the call of God? That call is not to change everything about your life all at once - to become a missionary, to go to another country, to quit your job and become a full time minister - it is about giving your inner life to God in complete surrender and allow God to change you from the inside out. Are you going to find the treasures that are a part of God's kingdom? When you do what will you do with them? Some of these great treasures are Surrender, thankfulness, realizing our connnection to God, allowing, knowing, practice, love, forgiveness, kindness, and joy. Meditate on these things. Begin to know these things and you will "sell all you have" to have God's kingdom.

"Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it." Matthew 10:39

Namaste'