Friday, September 29, 2006

My three treasures

Do you know you have a treasure in your home, in your office, or even in your drawer and briefcase ?

What is this treasure?
It is the Bible. The words of God are a priceless treasure. That is my first treasure.

Within this treasure, read Isaiah 33 : 6, my second treasure.
Wisdom and knowledge will be the stability of your times, and the strength of salvation; the fear of the LORD is His treasure.

There is yet one more treasure that you may not have realized that you possess.
It is inside of you. As the apostle Paul tells us in 2 Corinthians 4:7-11,
But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us. We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed- always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body. For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus' sake, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.

If you know Jesus as your personal Savior then through the Holy Spirit you have the
life of Jesus being "manifested" in your body.

Psalm 119 : 161 - 162
Princes persecute me without a cause, but my heart stands in awe of Your word. I rejoice at Your word as one who finds great treasure. I hate and abhor lying, but I love Your law.


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