TREASURE

My dad was born in 1924.  He saw many things during his lifetime and was also very talented.    He was a bomber pilot during WWII.  After the war he came home received a degree in marketing and  worked for a large rice company for many years.  After his retirement he began to paint.  He found his passion and purpose in painting.  Painting eased his soul.  He was also a woodcrafter.  He could take a piece of wood and make anything out of it.

My father passed away in 1995.  We knew he was dying so we were prepared, if you can be prepared.  Several years later we built our new home.  We moved all of the furniture in and placed the pieces in their  new locations.  We put my china cabinet, in which daddy had made,  in the dining room.  I climbed up on the ladder to put a vase on top when I looked down and saw some lettering.  It was written with a pencil and I knew right away it was my dad’s handwriting.  The letters said, “Misti what would we have done without you.”  Tears formed in my eyes as I thought back to the memories and also the time my dad put into placing every board and nail into my treasure. 

A treasure.  I found my treasure within the words written years ago in pencil on the tiptop of a china cabinet.   God places treasures everywhere.  Some are visible immediately, but some take time to appear.  It is important for us to take life slowly and look intentionally for those treasures that are around us.

Are you looking for a treasure?  Are you searching for that one thing that will be of value?  To us when we find treasures we find those particular objects that are meaningful to us, however to God we are each a treasure.  Everyday He looks at us and says, “What would I do without you?”

Deuteronomy 7:6New International Version (NIV)

6 For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession.