Ouch!

So, in Sunday School, I was presented with this dilemma...can you be pursuing the nice things of this world and still please the Lord? Can you have the best of both worlds? Seeking the best neighborhood, schools, clothes, food and life and still please the Lord? The Bible clearly states that you cannot serve Money and God, but am I serving Money in seeking some nice things of this world?

Well, as I was tucking Annabelle in tonight, reading her a Bible story, we came across the parable of the hidden treasure in Matthew 13:44-46. Jesus says, "The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hidden in the field, which a man found and hid again; and from joy over it he goes and sells all that he has and buys the field." Well, there is my answer!

The Jesus Storybook Bible puts it this way, "Coming home to God is as wonderful as finding a treasure! You might have to dig before you find it. You might have to look before you see it. You might even have to give up everything you have to get it. But being where God is - being in His kingdom - that's more important than anything else in all the world. It's worth anything you have to give up! God is the real treasure."

Is He truly my treasure! All I seek after and all I devote my time, money and energy towards? Is He that precious to me? Am I so overwhelmed with joy over finding my Savior that He is all I can think about. Obvious answer is no, but is that even my desire? That is why I say OUCH! No, I am definitely preoccupied and destracted, as Satan would have me be, with the things of this world. Good thing God is generous with His grace and that tomorrow starts a new day:0 Praise God!