Picture this: You are working hard plowing a rented field behind a team of oxen. Suddenly, you hear a clunk. You stop and go back to investigate. You see something glimmering in the sunshine. You excitedly dig around it and are astonished to find a treasure. There’s a fortune right there in front of you! You think of how you could help your needy family, your neighbors, and the poor, both in your village as well as those starving in a village far, far away. What would you do next?

Mathew 13:44 says, “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.”

The field is the Bible. The treasure is the gospel. So why did the man hide it? He needed first to surrender everything so he could possess and experience the gospel truth in his own life. God is showing me that we can’t give away anything that will help anyone unless we first receive it and possess it for ourselves.

“Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee” (Ps. 52:13). Let’s let God search our hearts and cleanse them, and then let’s go forth with the power of the Holy Spirit to win souls for eternity.
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