Throughout my office and studio I have a LOT of things that have been given to me. They are little treasures.
Here is one, it is a little ceramic heart that my daughter Madison made for me. On the bottom is her name and month and. Year she made it. Inside of it is more treasure. I have coin from the Holy Lands that my mother and father gave me. It is called a mite. Also inside of this is a very tiny shell that my daughter Hannah gave me on one of our trips to the Ocean.
This little heart is just the beginning of all kinds of stuff. In fact, I have one shelf that has a big collection of all this stuff given to me through the years. I see most of them every day of the year.
What makes these valuable? For everyone else, at best, these items are nice to look at but in reality they are pieces of junk, nothing to be valued. Why are they valuable to me?
They are tied to something, someone or some place that I love. They bring back memories. The treasure is NOT the item but what the item represents.
2 Corinthians 4:7 it says, “We have these treasures in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us.”
What is the treasure here? What does jars of clay mean?
The jars of clay are the believers. That is what we are. Just simple jars of clay. Out of the dust we were formed and to the dust we will return.
The treasure is Christ! In the sight of our Lord we are valuable when Christ is in us.
In the same way that the value of the various items in my office are only valuable because of what is tied to them, we are valuable because of Christ in us. He is the one in whom God is well pleased.
Your worth in God is connected to the worth of Christ. As He is worthy, so are you, if you are in Him.
As always, S.D.G.