What is there?

There is:
Christ.

There is:
God

There is:
Holy Spirit

There is:
Communion with God

He is the Highest Treasure. Him alone. What else?...

There is not:

fulfillment in marriage...

paying off debt

popularity

success

children

intelligence

attractiveness

... and more


There is only God... He is the treasure... the pearl of great price...

All of these things point to Him. (For by Him all things were created in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities. All things were created through Him and for Him. Colossians 1:16)

They can be wonderful things... worthwhile things...things we even ought to seek... but at times they will fail us and disatisfy, at times they will please us and succeed- in both situations all we can say is: My hope is in God.

But now, Lord, what do I look for?
My hope is in you. Psalm 39:7


And since the context was so magnificent :

⁶ Man is a mere phantom as he goes to and fro:
He bustles about, but only in vain;
he heaps up wealth, not knowing who will get it.

⁷ "But now, Lord, what do I look for?
My hope is in you.

⁸ Save me from all my transgressions;
do not make me the scorn of fools.

More food for rumination:

Matthew 19:29- And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal life.

Matthew 10:37- Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And whoever does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds his life will lose it and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Let’s memorize that one :)

Mark 10:25- it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.

Revelation 3:15-17 I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot! So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth. For you say, I am rich I have prospered, and I need nothing, not realizing that you are wretched, poor, pitiable, blind, and naked.

Matthew 13:44-45: The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up. Then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.

Oh that God would give us this desire... and willingness. Him and only Him...at any cost.

How would our churches look... our lives look... our conversations look... our interactions look...

Psalm 73:25-26

Whom have I in heaven but you, and there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you. My flesh and my heart may fail but God is my strength and my portion forevermore.