Do you like to hunt for treasures? Many boys and girls collect things they find, like pretty stones, seashells, colored leaves, pop cans and lots of other things, and they call them treasures. Maybe you have some treasures you have found.
Dave Crisp liked to hunt for coins. He was so serious about looking for his treasure that he was known as a “hobby metal detectorist.” That’s a really big name for somebody who looks for coins. However, sometimes the coins he found were valuable, and he used a metal detector to find them.
One day as he was using his metal detector in a field in southwest England, Dave came upon a huge collection of very old, buried coins. After he dug up a few of the coins, he knew that he had found a prize, more valuable than he had ever found before! He stopped digging and called in experts from a museum.
The experts dug up a large pot holding 52,000 coins, weighing 350 pounds and worth $5,000,000! It took the museum workers about three months just to wash the coins and make a list of them. How the coins got in the field remains a mystery, but the museum workers did learn that the coins are over 1700 years old.
What kind of treasure are you looking for? The greatest treasure you will ever find is available to everyone—to know the Lord Jesus Christ as your Saviour. “Ye shall seek Me, and find Me, when ye shall search for Me with all your heart” (Jeremiah 29:1313And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart. (Jeremiah 29:13)). “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved” (Acts 16:3131And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. (Acts 16:31)).
If you know the Lord Jesus as your very own Saviour, there is a special place to look for more valuable treasure—in God’s Word, the Bible. The person whom God inspired to write Psalm 119:1616I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word. (Psalm 119:16)2 Said, “I rejoice at Thy word, as one that [finds] great [treasure].” As you search in God’s Word, you will find many treasures of the Lord’s love and care for you. One of those treasures is His promise, “I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee” (Hebrews 13:55Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. (Hebrews 13:5)). You will never be alone!
Dave Crisp found a very valuable treasure. As you read the Bible, the hidden treasures you will find in it are much more valuable than the ones Dave found. Most boys and girls keep their treasures in their rooms at home, but did you know that you can keep some treasures in heaven? Whatever you do for the Lord Jesus, He says they are treasures that He keeps for you. Someday He will show you just how valuable they really are.
ML-06/10/2012