Treasure Hunters Pt. 1

It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, but the glory of kings is to search out a matter. Prov.25:2

When you think of a treasure, what words come to mind? Perhaps words like ‘rare’, ‘highly valuable’ or ‘sentimental’ spring up.  These are words that convey to someone that the object in question is above ordinary, maybe even one of a kind.  It isn’t something you treat lightly, or let just anyone handle.  Someone would have to be intimate with you before you even consider allowing them access to something you prize. You may have traveled far and wide to obtain it, or you may have invested a great deal of money to possess it. You don’t keep it lying around ordinary things but in a special place to protect it. And you guard it carefully above everything else you own.

What if that’s how God wants us to approach our relationship with Him? Are there treasures of Christ that we have to patiently and diligently explore Him for that the lukewarm seem blinded to? It appears that the testimony of God in Scripture is that He wants to be pursued and that Christ redeemed us so that we might not only serve Him, but intimately know Him.

This tells me that there is a higher passion we are to possess that equips us to dive into the realms of our Father’s heart and discover the wealth of who He is. 

Perhaps the Christian walk can be thought of as a sacred quest where we have the honor of forsaking the false treasures of this world in order to adventurously explore the depths of the King of Kings. He designed the journey in such a way that we can only discover the deeper things the more fervent and diligent we become.  We gain eyes to see the treasures of God more clearly only as we learn to place the highest value on knowing the Father’s heart.

There is always more to Christ, so let’s keep going higher!