Some people live on a budget. Others accumulate debt on their credit cards.
Whether rich or poor, in abundance or in need, we are all burdened by financial stresses and must decide how to spend what we have.
Timothy Keller, in his book The Prodigal God, defines the word prodigal as one having spent it all, recklessly extravagant...
In Matthew 13:45-46, we see the parable of the pearl of great price or value. We don’t know the financial condition of the merchant in search of fine pearls. We don’t know how many nice pearls he had found previously.
What we do know is that when he found this one pearl, he went and sold everything he had in order to buy it. He sacrificed it all for the one.
God sacrificed his one and only Son—he paid the ultimate price, that we might be his.
What are you willing to sacrifice in order to be his disciple (Luke 14:33)? The widow gave her last two coins (Luke 21:1-4).
This kind of financial practice seems foolish to the world, but we recognize it as wise spending.
God sees you as the pearl of great price. Do you see him in the same way?