Just loved this morning's service for we find Jacob (still on the run from Esau) heading into Haran and falling for Rachel. Dodgy Jacob gets some of his own from Uncle Laban who rewards him for seven year's work with Leah, the dodgy eyed uggle. "What, didn't we explain the eldest has to be married first," say Uncle Laban.
Seven more years and Jacob finally gets Rachel (and then there's more year and . . . Eastenders theme)
When you see what you want you'll pay the price, even if it's another seven years of working for your dodgy uncle cum Father-in-Law!
So we get the readings about the man who find treasure in a field and give all he has to possess that treasure. Another reading of a man who finds a pearl that makes him realise everything he has treasured until now is just dross! So he sells it all and buys the things that is precious and special.
Enter God who (Paul points out) pays the price of His Son, Jesus the Christ, to purchase something.
Wow, if it cost the life of His Son it has to be really special - but what can it be?
YOU!
If God was willing to pay the price of His Son for YOU then how special, precious, treasured, loved, valued (etc.) can that make YOU.
Live in it and live worthy of it, today and always,
Pax
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