The Treasure

I have a treasure that is worth more than any other treasure! This One makes all other treasures seem like a "total waste." His name is, 'The Lord Jesus' and I have Him. I have Him like a married woman has a husband. Although the marriage supper hasn't come yet, I am engaged to Jesus with an engagement that is sure and certain. It is not like an engagement that "modern" man in the 21st century. It is not one that can be broken easily and for fickle reasons. No, it is a secure engagement - ABSOLUTELY secure! It has been firmly established and will last until the marriage supper.
For He gave up His life for me and God raised Him from the dead that He might live with me forever. Not even death can separate us anymore; nor shall my current weaknesses, nor my falleness, nor my temporary bouts of sinfulness for His love and grace for me greater than all these things. And it IS His love and grace that is changing me into the man I ought to be, yea, the man He predestined me to be.
I have Him and He has me ,for like a man named Paul once said, "I have given up all that was gain to me in order that I might have Christ and be found in Him." (Phil. 3) Jesus asks for nothing less from me because because He gave up all He had, even Heaven itself, to have me. And when I give up all for Him, including my "heaven on earth" I gain all of Him. I gain ALL of Him for He does not love sparingly nor partially. He loves me totally and without reservation for unlike human love, His Divine love holds nothing back. He is THE BREAD of life and does not give me bits and pieces of Himself, a.k.a. "crumbs". He gives me MORE than I can eat. He is a good Bridegroom for it pleases Him that I should be full and overflowing - not hungry or weak or starving.
And this TREASURE I've found & given up all for shall be mine forever for we are becoming one and to separate us is becoming more and more difficult - it's practically impossible!
You may ask, "What does it take to have Him?"
It takes coming to Him just as you are - honestly and humbly just like a child would. Don't try and impress Him for you can't. How can any of us impress The ONE who is the CROWN JEWEL of all of God's creation - Him who was before time and has always been? We can't. Just give ALL of yourself to Him, even when it costs you all of your other treasures, for in doing so you will find that you will have gained all that those fading and passing treasures promised you and more.
In the past I sought gold but once I had some I found it leaving me in want. I sought righteousness through my own religious "Christian" works but found it to be but filthy rags. I sought wisdom and knowledge and found it unable to quench my hunger and thirst for love and acceptance. I sought pleasure and found it to be but an empty cloud in a land desperate for rain. And then...
And then I found Him...well I should say, "He let me find Him. He put Himself in my path because He wanted to make Himself known to me. He WANTED me to find Him!"
He is the GREATEST TREASURE of ALL! He came to me that I might have abundant life and so He gave Himself to me; He IS ABUNDANT LIFE!!! Perhaps, that's His secret name mentioned in Rev. 19:12? I don't know. But I do know I could lose all else in my life and it would be o.k. I could suffer all kinds of loss and persecutions and sorrows and pains in this life and it would be o.k. - not because I find pleasure in pain or glory in suffering but because I have Him and no one and nothing can take Him away from me. He won't let that happen because He loves me too much. He'd give up His throne in heaven again if He had to for me because I am the apple of His eye, the desire of His heart, the one He sings about in the night. That's who I am - His Beloved, His Treasure