BBD 09.03.01 Hidden Treasure (Classic)

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Classic from 2006

09.03.13

Hidden Treasure

Princes persecute me without a cause, but my heart stands in awe of Your
word. I rejoice at Your word as one who finds great treasure. I hate and abhor
lying, but I love Your law. - Psalm 119:161-162.

This morning on "Good Morning America",
I watched a story about Baptist students from Armstrong Atlantic State
University in Georgia on spring break. The unusual part of the story was that
they were spending their break cleaning up houses that had been flooded by the
hurricane. The very unusual part of this story was that one of the girls had
found $30,000 in a closet when a vent came apart.

Trista Wright, the
19-year-old college student who found the money said, "I started raking it out of the air conditioner
vent. I thought it was garbage and I was going to shovel it up, but I bent down
to pick it up, and it was a stack of $100 bills, and then more and more kept
coming."

The money was in good condition and the owner who was out
in the yard had no idea the money was there. The owner was needless to say very
thrilled, "speechless" according to Wright, and the money is definitely needed
to help restore the home. Since the home has been in the family for generations
it is thought that the money was hidden by the current owner’s father. Since
her father had gone through the depression he had a distrust of banks. (Thanks to Bruce Andis for sending me the link to the
story!)

Can you imagine having thousands of dollars unknown to
you lying hidden in your home? If you had
not personally hidden the money, it would surely be a great shock for it to be
discovered! Just think about it - hidden treasure in your home, unknown,
and undiscovered for years and years. In the case of the woman whose home was
damaged by the hurricane it must be an even more special find because of her
great need and that it was found in her own home. We can only marvel and praise
God for having moved to help this woman in her hour of need.

Actually, there may be hidden treasure in your home. Where?
You may think and how would you know? Because for many families across
the world they have the very same type of treasure but are not making use of
it. The treasure is just laying there waiting for someone to pick it up. What
is this treasure? It is the Bible. The words of God are a priceless
treasure.

The Psalmist says it well when he says, "I rejoice at Your word as one who finds great treasure."

For surely to have access to the very words of God, the
Creator of everything, is a fantastic treasure!

Did you know that there may be another hidden treasure in
your home? What you may be thinking could that possibly be? That second hidden
treasure is found in being obedient to the words of the first treasure.

As Isaiah put it in Isaiah
33:6, "Wisdom and knowledge will be the stability of your times, and the
strength of salvation; the fear of the LORD is His treasure."

There is one final treasure that you may not have
realized that you possess. It is not inside your home unless you are inside
your home because this treasure is inside of you. As the apostle Paul tells us
in 2 Corinthians 4:7-11, "But we have this
treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and
not of us. We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are
perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but
not destroyed— always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus,
that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body. For we who live are
always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life of Jesus also may be
manifested in our mortal flesh." If you know
Jesus as your personal Savior then through the Holy Spirit you have the life of
Jesus being "manifested" in your body.

It may be that some of us need to go and find our
treasure! What a wonderful treasure trove we have been given!

Copyright © 2006-2013. Ed Wrather.
The Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On June 8,
1998 the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent. Ed
Wrather began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of these
first devotionals was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent to
prison facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Ed Wrather has retired from
pastoring full-time and has more time to pursue other ministry opportunities.
No matter what the size your church, Ed will come on a love offering basis for
a revival or to share his testimony in the continental United States. You can
make contact at edwrather@yahoo.com or WratherEd@gmail.com View
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Visit the
Burning Bush websites:

http://www.theburningbush.net

http://www.theburningbush.org

The
Burning Bush websites have received visits from more than 170 countries. Celebrating
15 years online since January 31, 1998. Since June 8, 1998 the Burning Bush
Devotional has been spreading the truth of God's Word to more than 14,000
subscribers across the world.

You can
leave comments/feedback about the devotionals at http://www.theburningbush.net.

There is
a translation tool on theburningbush.net website in the top left hand corner of
all of the pages.

The Burning Bush Devotional

14,000 Subscribers
to the Email Devotional

Classic from 2006

09.03.13

Hidden Treasure

Princes persecute me without a cause, but my heart stands in awe of Your
word. I rejoice at Your word as one who finds great treasure. I hate and abhor
lying, but I love Your law. - Psalm 119:161-162.

This morning on "Good Morning America",
I watched a story about Baptist students from Armstrong Atlantic State
University in Georgia on spring break. The unusual part of the story was that
they were spending their break cleaning up houses that had been flooded by the
hurricane. The very unusual part of this story was that one of the girls had
found $30,000 in a closet when a vent came apart.

Trista Wright, the
19-year-old college student who found the money said, "I started raking it out of the air conditioner
vent. I thought it was garbage and I was going to shovel it up, but I bent down
to pick it up, and it was a stack of $100 bills, and then more and more kept
coming."

The money was in good condition and the owner who was out
in the yard had no idea the money was there. The owner was needless to say very
thrilled, "speechless" according to Wright, and the money is definitely needed
to help restore the home. Since the home has been in the family for generations
it is thought that the money was hidden by the current owner’s father. Since
her father had gone through the depression he had a distrust of banks. (Thanks to Bruce Andis for sending me the link to the
story!)

Can you imagine having thousands of dollars unknown to
you lying hidden in your home? If you had
not personally hidden the money, it would surely be a great shock for it to be
discovered! Just think about it - hidden treasure in your home, unknown,
and undiscovered for years and years. In the case of the woman whose home was
damaged by the hurricane it must be an even more special find because of her
great need and that it was found in her own home. We can only marvel and praise
God for having moved to help this woman in her hour of need.

Actually, there may be hidden treasure in your home. Where?
You may think and how would you know? Because for many families across
the world they have the very same type of treasure but are not making use of
it. The treasure is just laying there waiting for someone to pick it up. What
is this treasure? It is the Bible. The words of God are a priceless
treasure.

The Psalmist says it well when he says, "I rejoice at Your word as one who finds great treasure."

For surely to have access to the very words of God, the
Creator of everything, is a fantastic treasure!

Did you know that there may be another hidden treasure in
your home? What you may be thinking could that possibly be? That second hidden
treasure is found in being obedient to the words of the first treasure.

As Isaiah put it in Isaiah
33:6, "Wisdom and knowledge will be the stability of your times, and the
strength of salvation; the fear of the LORD is His treasure."

There is one final treasure that you may not have
realized that you possess. It is not inside your home unless you are inside
your home because this treasure is inside of you. As the apostle Paul tells us
in 2 Corinthians 4:7-11, "But we have this
treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and
not of us. We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are
perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but
not destroyed— always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus,
that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body. For we who live are
always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life of Jesus also may be
manifested in our mortal flesh." If you know
Jesus as your personal Savior then through the Holy Spirit you have the life of
Jesus being "manifested" in your body.

It may be that some of us need to go and find our
treasure! What a wonderful treasure trove we have been given!

Copyright © 2006-2013. Ed Wrather.
The Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On June 8,
1998 the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent. Ed
Wrather began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of these
first devotionals was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent to
prison facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Ed Wrather has retired from
pastoring full-time and has more time to pursue other ministry opportunities.
No matter what the size your church, Ed will come on a love offering basis for
a revival or to share his testimony in the continental United States. You can
make contact at edwrather@yahoo.com or WratherEd@gmail.com View
LinkedIn profile with endorsements at
http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=92988105

Prayer Requests: Many prayer
needs are posted at the Burning Bush website on the Prayer Request page. You
can also post your prayer requests there (Of course, I am always in need of
prayer - please pray for me.).

Please join the Burning Bush Prayer Group.
The group began in 1998 and is made up of over 300 prayer warriors. Send prayer requests and receive prayer
requests. To join send an email to: bbpg-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

If you enjoy the devotional please recommend it to your friends. They may
subscribe by sending a blank email to burningbushdevo-join@welovegod.org

There is a complete devotional
archive at the old Burning Bush website. Here is the URL: http://www.theburningbush.org/33.html.

You can unsubscribe to the burningbushdevo
devotional group by sending a blank email to
burningbushdevo-leave@welovegod.org and then respond to the confirmation email.

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only being sent now in html format) by sending a blank email to
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