The Real Treasures

UV3259/10000 The Real Treasures
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

1 Corinthians 13 v 13

If faith is gold in God’s economy, hope is silver and love is platinum. It is these heavenly treasures that Jesus asks us to accumulate which neither thief can take away nor moth or rust destroy. Faith enables us to trust God more and more, to enjoy His blessings, to experience and exercise His power and authority on Earth. Faith enables us to deal with all our fears. With faith in Jesus, we can encash all of God’s promises, one by one, as He is the Yes and Amen to all His promises. With faith we can move mountains or effectively remove barriers and obstacles that stand in our way, cast out demons, root out doubts and our insecurity about what we do not know or do not see. With faith, we can buy for ourselves the clothes of salvation and the ability to see and fulfill God’s purpose for our lives.

Till the promise of God is fulfilled, we need to be filled with hope. Even when the odds are against us, we need to sustain our hope. Hope fills us with both courage and joy. Hope fulfilled is sweet to the soul but even the period of waiting is not painful or burdensome. Like gold and silver needs to be purified seven times over, our faith and hope needs to be tested and refined over and over again. These are the real treasures we can use and enjoy for the treasures like gold, silver and platinum cannot buy for us life, health, happiness, joy, peace, healthy relationships and is often the cause for forfeiting any or all of these. But with faith, hope and love, we can buy back lost health, heal broken relationships, resolve issues, solve real life problems, live forever and enjoy heavenly peace or bliss on Earth.

Love like platinum is the rarest and most valuable. It is not shiny like gold but dull. It stays pure and uncontaminated. Our tasting the agape love of God in Christ leads to such love growing out of our hearts. By meditating on the many dimensions of the love of Christ that we have experienced, our own love increases. Just as neither gold, silver or platinum does not react to oxygen in the air and does not rust, we too should not react to the world and so, our love, hope and faith do not decay or deteriorate. Our thoughts, words and actions should be creative and proactive and not reactive. We should keep increasing our reserves of faith, hope and love even as a weight lifter or body builder strives to increase his muscles and strength. The more we exercise our muscles, the more it grows. The more we exercise faith, hope and love, the more it grows, too.