Jesus Is Our Treasure
“To endow those who love me with wealth, that I may fill their treasuries. Proverbs 8:21
In March 2012, a man named Zachary Bodish bought what he thought was a poster reproduction advertising an exhibit of Pablo Picasso for $14.14 in a thrift store. He had the print appraised and it was an authentic print signed by the artist himself and worth around $6,000.
Bodish, who regularly visited thrift stores, said it was hidden in a stack of other posters. “I see them all the time. There’s really no value to them,” he said. “But this one looked different because those posters usually have a glossy finish to them and this was matte, and it was brown.”
It was when he got home and searched the image online that he realized what he might have. The previous owner who said he donated the piece to the thrift store later came forward saying a friend gave the print to him as a gift in the 1960s, and when he recently decided to re-arrange his home, he donated the work, not knowing its possible value.
Jesus was clothed as an ordinary man, but He is the magnificent treasure we desire. Praise the Lord that when we pursue God by faith, we find all we ask in Christ. He is the Treasure of all ages. The answer to our every need.
“The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hidden in the field, which a man found and hid again; and from joy over it, he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.” Matthew 13:44