I Have Many Treasures.

I found these two quotes from the book - Pursuit of God- worthy of repeating and expounding on.

'Faith may  now be exercised without a jar to the moral life and without embarrassment to the Adamic ego. Christ may be "received" without creating any special love for Him in the soul of the receiver. '

'The man is "saved," but he is not hungry nor thirsty after God. In fact he is specifically taught to be satisfied and encouraged to be content with little.'

Imagine faith without a single jar to our moral life. Imagine being told you can live as you please, seek pleasure as it suits you, and still be saved, a Christian. We really don't have to imagine this, do we? It's the way the majority of people choose to live. Seeking self-satisfaction in every aspect of our lives. If we want something we strive to get it if at all possible- within our financial means of course, or without if we are able to borrow, use credit or otherwise obtain the funds. We are seldom content with very little. We pity those who have very little, we call them poor, deprived, sad and miserable. Are they always sad and miserable with their meager possessions? Do they spend their lives constantly lamenting their fate, wish they'd been dealt a different hand so they could have been among those with many tangible treasures.

Do you realize just how many treasures you have in your life? Seriously, do you?

We are told to lay up our treasures in heaven but truthfully we have a whole slew of treasures surrounding us. There is a holiday approaching, Christmas, and it is filled with treasure accumulation. Just how many new treasures are coming our way? We delight to receive and often we delight to distribute treasures too, don't we? I know I've made several gifts this year which in truth are treasures, to give to people. Is it wrong? I cry out, no, no it can't be wrong. Yet, these verses…

Mat 6:19  Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: 

Mat 6:20  But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: 

Mat 6:21  For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. 

And this verse… Col 3:2  Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. 

Treasures… I have so many compared to so many, and yet I have so few compared to many as well. I am blessed beyond measure with my treasures.

I digress, at the beginning of this little study I mentioned the belief that you can have faith without a jar to the moral life- you can have Jesus without any change to your life whatsoever- live as you please- and you know what? It is all LIES. People believe it's true, but it's not. To live for Christ is to live as Christ and Christ had moral standards as high as they come. We NEED to welcome the convictions of the Holy Spirit in our lives, and live accordingly heeding the reprimands, the chastising, the pain of our allowing sin to flourish in our lives. We cannot indulge our low moral standards, but ever seek the moral standard Christ would have us hold.

More on those quotes from the book Pursuit of God, tomorrow, by the will and grace of our Lord.

Please, Lord, we would be wholly Yours. Please let us use any treasures we may have for your glory, teach us how to do so, help us to be YOURS. Please let our morals be the same as Yours and no others. May You be our guide throughout our lives now and ALWAYS! We choose You, Lord, we choose You! Save us even from… especially from ourselves and the evils we indulge in. Open our blind eyes please! Please.

Thank you, Lord, thank you.