“The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up. Then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.”
— Matthew 13:44
“For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”
— Matthew 6:21
In treasuring Christ our hearts become rich with faith; in the divine economy our treasure grows as we give it away. While the hoarding heart is truly empty, an idle pile of useless clutter, the expansive, wanton giver of all, in Christ, is multiplied with blessings. Just as Christ fed 5,000 with a few fragments of fish and bread, those who come to him empty with hunger abide in a filling fellowship of grace, love, and truth.
How deeply satisfied was the apostle Paul in this divine economy, where the greatest loss proved his greatest gain:
“But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith— that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead.”
— Philippians 3:7-11
“In all things…remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
— Acts 20:35
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