. God is the Buyer and You are the Treasure.
The Gospel about the hidden treasure (Matthew 13:44-52) is a loving invitation to truly find the true treasure that God has gifted us. Jesus told us “not to store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and decay destroy, and thieves break in and steal, but store up treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor decay destroys, nor thieves break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there also will your heart be.” (Mt. 6: 19-21) What is the treasure that Jesus meant?
In the present time, our society is edging God out of the picture not only in societal life but also in people’s personal lives. The temptation of modern women and men is not new, actually, it was the same temptation that the serpent used to trick Eve and Adam. It is the temptation of playing or acting as the God in our lives. We take away God in our lives by putting our trust in our economic and material sufficiency. We edge God out from our lives when we think we are powerful …show more content…
Rather, he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, coming in human likeness; and found human in appearance, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, even death on a cross”(Phil. 2:5-8). The person who sees himself/herself as the one being loved by God puts on the same attitude of Christ Jesus. He lives his faith, his religion, his life, no longer as an obligation but instead as an answer to the love he receives from the God of love. Love of God guides him in every aspect of his life. The person who is faithful to his true self, or true nature can say “…I might live for God. I have been crucified with Christ; yet I live, no longer I, but Christ lives in me; insofar as I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God who has loved me and given himself up for me.” (Gal. 2:
The Gospel about the hidden treasure (Matthew 13:44-52) is a loving invitation to truly find the true treasure that God has gifted us. Jesus told us “not to store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and decay destroy, and thieves break in and steal, but store up treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor decay destroys, nor thieves break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there also will your heart be.” (Mt. 6: 19-21) What is the treasure that Jesus meant?
In the present time, our society is edging God out of the picture not only in societal life but also in people’s personal lives. The temptation of modern women and men is not new, actually, it was the same temptation that the serpent used to trick Eve and Adam. It is the temptation of playing or acting as the God in our lives. We take away God in our lives by putting our trust in our economic and material sufficiency. We edge God out from our lives when we think we are powerful …show more content…
Rather, he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, coming in human likeness; and found human in appearance, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, even death on a cross”(Phil. 2:5-8). The person who sees himself/herself as the one being loved by God puts on the same attitude of Christ Jesus. He lives his faith, his religion, his life, no longer as an obligation but instead as an answer to the love he receives from the God of love. Love of God guides him in every aspect of his life. The person who is faithful to his true self, or true nature can say “…I might live for God. I have been crucified with Christ; yet I live, no longer I, but Christ lives in me; insofar as I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God who has loved me and given himself up for me.” (Gal. 2: