Verse of the Day - Proverbs 25:2

It is God's privilege to conceal things and the king's privilege to discover them. ~ Proverbs 25:2(NLT)

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The idea of looking for buried treasure just fascinates me -- don't know why. I would LOVE to have a metal detector! Beeeep....buzzz.....beeeeep....as it sweeps over the surface of the earth. I can't explain it but it charges my spirit to think I could find something really cool! I occasionally thought I'd like to be an archaeologist some day--same principle. Finding something that's hidden. It's just FUN! Just watch the kids this Easter weekend, scrambling to find the hidden eggs. Fun for them, and fun for you who have hidden them!

So the Word says that it is God's privilege in concealing things. Perhaps He even takes pleasure, I don't know. I do know that mankind has, since the beginning of time, been uncovering hidden treasure in all the sciences, allowing us to discover what God already knows. There is learned discipline in the digging, appreciation in the finding, satisfaction in the utilizing.

(Tangent time: God has His reasons for keeping knowledge hidden for as long as He does...His ways are mysterious and unfathomable. Yet they are perfect. But do you wonder, even question with a bit of accusation, about why God would wait so long to allow us to uncover the mystery/cure for, say, cancer? or AIDS? If God were to reveal the answers to these mysteries sooner, so many people might be saved. Again, He is God and I am not. Yet, I am so grateful for all that He has allowed man to uncover. Childhood diseases are almost a thing of the past now! Vaccinations have almost eradicated killers of children from eras gone by. Even though the research hospitals continue to seek out the knowledge of many illusive cures, we are very blessed by God's revelations in medicine, even now!)

You know how easy it is to be ungrateful when things are handed to us, right? Kids get entirely spoiled when everything is done for them, when everything is paid for without them lifting a finger, right? They usually don't appreciate what they don't have to work for. Perhaps we are the same way, and God knows it. If everything in life were handed to us...knowledge and understanding, the ability to forgive and love...without the digging and scratching and searching, would we value these God attributes in our lives as we should? Would we use them to help others as we should? Or would we simply sit on our proverbial couch and watch the world go by on our TV screen, untouched and unaffected by all that we've been given?

"You will seek me and find Me when you seek Me with all your heart." ~ Jeremiah 29:13

God says, I'm not handing Myself to you on a silver platter unless you really want me. Are we really hungry for God, for His truths, for knowledge and understanding? Or are we content with the Easter eggs of God that sit on the grass in plain sight, not really willing or desirous to dig into God's word and His Spirit to know the deep, hidden things of God?

There is much more we would like to say about this, but it is difficult to explain, especially since you are spiritually dull and don’t seem to listen. You have been believers so long now that you ought to be teaching others. Instead, you need someone to teach you again the basic things about God’s word. You are like babies who need milk and cannot eat solid food. For someone who lives on milk is still an infant and doesn’t know how to do what is right. Solid food is for those who are mature, who through training have the skill to recognize the difference between right and wrong. ~ Hebrews 5:11-15

The Lord is good and right; he points sinners to the right way. He shows those who are humble how to do right, and he teaches them his ways...
Are there those who respect the Lord? He will point them to the best way...
The Lord tells his secrets to those who respect him; he tells them about his agreement.
~ Psalm 25:8-9, 12, 14

Sounds to me like God is looking for people who are humble and hungry, contrite and committed...people that know themselves full-well in all their fallenness, and want to know Him full-well in all His holiness.

So, which God eggs are you after -- those in plain sight or those tucked in the flower pot? To what lengths are you willing to go to uncover what He has concealed?

May God bless you as you search for spiritual treasures!

Love,
Joelene