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Matthew 13:45-46


I really do enjoy this parable, the parable of the merchant and the pearl. The Lord is comparing the Kingdom of Heaven to a pearl and how this merchant sold everything that he had to have this one pearl. How much more so should we be willing to sell everything that we own for God and His Glory? How much more so Should I be willing to drop everything, leave everything behind, for His names sake? The more I sit here and really think about it the longer the list gets, the list of things that the Lord is asking me to give up that I am not letting go of. My knuckles are white from grasping these things for so long and I am tired of it. I even allow worries to hold me back. Worries of my future, worries about my family, worries about pretty much anything that I can worry about. But an amazing thing that we receive from the Lord is to cast all of our burdens on Him. Psalm 55:22 “Cast your burdens on the Lord, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.” The Lord is right there waiting for me to hand over the things holding me back. He is right there waiting to carry my burdens of sin and idolatry. He loves me so much that he wants to help me. The Lord of all creation WANTS to help me. I am the merchant and the Lord is the pearl. The Pearl costs as much as all of the things that “I” own and my life itself and something even crazier, that pearl is found to be beyond worth it. 

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