There is a man named Jay Leno, some of you know he use to host “The Tonight Show” on NBC.
Jay has always been a car enthusiast and quite a number of people know of his collection of automobiles.
Recently, Jay came across a car that was sitting in a barn in the middle of a junk yard. The car was worth $10 million. It was a Mercedes and there were less than 30 of this particular car made. The one he found was the only one of this model that had not been refurbished.
Ten million dollars for a car. Very hard to comprehend. It is incredible.
It reminds me of a story that Jesus told, found in Matthew 13. It was about a pearl of great price. Someone found it and sold all that they had to buy that pearl.
As Jesus is telling this story he is giving laser focus that there is treasure in this world. Treasure is something that we value. What treasure is differs for each of us. We will sacrifice for what we treasure. That is the point of Jesus’ story.
When you find something you greatly value, you make sacrifice to gain it. Someone, somewhere will pay $10 million for this old car Jay Leno found. They are paying that because this is the value that they place on that car. They will pay with an actual money amount.
With Christ, and His kingdom, you do not buy your way in like this. You do give up yourself. You sacrifice yourself.
What does that look like? What is the deeper meaning of the Pearl of Great Price?
We can explore that next time. Until then,
S.D.G.