Weekly Devo

   (Matthew 13:45-46) The pearl of great price presents some valuable lessons. We need to be seeking what is valuable. We need to be willing to pay for it when we find it. Obviously, we are not talking about earthly riches. The Kingdom is the most valuable thing on earth. We need to wake up and realize that all the shiny pretty little things around us are but tin cans compared to eternal life with God. We need to be willing to give up these earthly trinkets. Pearls and treasure peak our interest. Even those images in these parables do not do justice to what awaits God’s children. Will you sell it all for it? You need to.

                                                   (Matthew 13:33) We often think that life is full of these enormous events with monstrous changes. The reality is that it’s the little things. Things like making your bed when you wake up or whether you ignored a phone call. Most of the time people are not in a bad mood over an event but a series of events. Just think about it. You wake up, but you’re out of tooth paste. Then you can’t find your socks. The car is low on fuel. Then there is a wreck on the way to work. You missed your morning meeting. By the end of the day with events like this you’re livid. We understand it in that context. Why do we struggle to understand it spiritually. It only takes one “little” sin to cause us to fall from grace. It’s not the day we wake up and come back that it all happened, it’s been happening. The same is true to grow in Christ. It’s not the day it just seems to all work out, it’s those “little” choices to be righteous that makes the difference. A