We all have things we treasure.
Sometimes we label them bric-a-brac, ornaments, knickknacks, trinkets, or tchotchkes. The list goes on.
We collect them, put them on display, and don’t mind if they crowd our tabletops and cupboard counters. We like them, and we aren’t concerned with naysayers. If we find them beautiful, others must, too… right?
Some of us are thinking, not me. We don’t do that. We don’t collect junk. Instead, we have multiple bank accounts, social connections to various clubs, more cars than we can drive, memberships at numerous golf clubs, and two vacation houses, one in the mountains and the other at the beach. How can anyone not see that these are the important things in life?
We treasure different things, so we collect them like bibelots, gewgaws, and gimcracks. They may not litter our sideboards, but they are strewn all through the moments of our lives.
God says they must not come before him. We cannot place more importance in our bric-a-brac than we place in him.
And it’s all bric-a-brac in God’s eyes. It’s stuff we collect because we find it beautiful.
In Numbers 18:14, the Lord is speaking to the rulers of the priesthood about the items that are to be brought to God and dedicated to those in the service of the Lord:
“Every thing devoted in Israel shall be yours.”
Devoted. Loved. Treasured. Special beyond all measure. All of it had to be laid out before God and offered unto his holy priesthood. Everything.
Our trinkets, our bibelots. Our golf club memberships. Our bank accounts. Whatever we treasure highly, we must give God first dibs on to use it as he pleases.
We will find new levels of trust in the Father when we turn loose of what we love, and he lovingly returns it to us to use for his glory and for the kingdom of God.
What we hold to tells what’s in our heart. What we release to God reveals the depths of our love for our Lord.
Copyright © 2017 MyChurchNotes.net
Code: FGO.H.21.17a.vp.kjv