HIDDEN VAN MONEY PARABLE SUBSCRIBE
PARABLE:
I
always hide in my van enough money to buy gas to get home without a
credit card. Only once has my cc not worked (when bank said it was fine)
and I had $$, but there's a comfort in preparation 'just in case'!
June's Music Festival trip 100s of miles each way meant hiding $250... a
"small treasure." Dawned on me I should tell someone where I hide money
in van just "in another case!"
....... Which led me.... {my mind thinks in patterns which can be weird sometimes but hey I see lots of parables in life:} to thinking of Jesus's story about the guy finding a buried treasure in the field and selling all he had to go buy the field so he'd own the treasure.
....... For years I've wondered why Jesus taught "finders keepers." Doesn't seem fair -- What about treasure's owner?? Is he being cheated?? All these Q's just from Matthew 13:44 -- this single verse has stumped me for years
even tho I understood the point Jesus was making---
Give up stupid stuff to win Heaven with God.
...... Radio sermon this week explained it! There were no safe banks in Jesus's day. So people buried their valuables where only a few trusted family members could find it. Obviously between wars & diseases, the life span was shorter then, and sometimes entire families would die out within weeks of each other.
...... Thus, the estate would be sold to the highest bidder... who occasionally discovered that the original owners had... buried their treasure. No one got cheated.
And Jesus didn't have to explain it wasn't "finders keepers" because people understood.
What does LORD God say ?? Matthew 13:44
JESUS SPEAKING several stories describing Truths about the KINGDOM OF GOD:
“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and hid; and for joy over it he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.
___________________________________________________________________....... Which led me.... {my mind thinks in patterns which can be weird sometimes but hey I see lots of parables in life:} to thinking of Jesus's story about the guy finding a buried treasure in the field and selling all he had to go buy the field so he'd own the treasure.
....... For years I've wondered why Jesus taught "finders keepers." Doesn't seem fair -- What about treasure's owner?? Is he being cheated?? All these Q's just from Matthew 13:44 -- this single verse has stumped me for years
even tho I understood the point Jesus was making---
Give up stupid stuff to win Heaven with God.
...... Radio sermon this week explained it! There were no safe banks in Jesus's day. So people buried their valuables where only a few trusted family members could find it. Obviously between wars & diseases, the life span was shorter then, and sometimes entire families would die out within weeks of each other.
...... Thus, the estate would be sold to the highest bidder... who occasionally discovered that the original owners had... buried their treasure. No one got cheated.
And Jesus didn't have to explain it wasn't "finders keepers" because people understood.
SO WHAT ??
..... Just another example of why it's not only fun
but useful to take advantage of all the many Bible history and study
resources God has provided to those who seek... The internet and books
are truly gifts from Him even if many people choose to mis-use them.What does LORD God say ?? Matthew 13:44
JESUS SPEAKING several stories describing Truths about the KINGDOM OF GOD:
“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and hid; and for joy over it he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.
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