Treasure (Part 1)

What am I suppose to do? Who am I? What is my purpose, my destiny, my passion? Where is my place in life? All good questions. I wanted to share some thoughts and pass along some words from Kirk Bennett.

"Everyone is always wondering, "where is my place?". I go through that regularly, over and over again because God wants to take us into a depth of knowing Him and security that does not reside in what we do outwardly. It resides in who we are. God wants to align our hearts that we would understand who we are so that issues of what we do flow out of that."

It isn't about "doing" a ministry or doing anything in particular. "The church is going through an identity crisis." But what about all the stuff, ya know, the stuff we are suppose to be doing? The Lord simply says "Come Here. I just want to be with you." Besides you can't do the second commandment without doing the first. You have to know God, your creator, champion, friend, beloved, Lord to know who you are and have perspective on life.

So who am I? Who does God say I am?

"The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field." Matthew 13:44

Say the man from the parable is actually God, and he is searching the world to find the treasure, a relationship with people, the "voluntary lover" (2 Chron. 16:9). Once God found his treasure, his people, he gave all he had and paid the price of His Son Jesus for them.

So we are the treasure!! How cool is that !! "....then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession. Although the whole earth is mine, you will be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation." (Ex. 19:5) "God has chose you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession." (Deut. 7:6) "You are a chosen people...."(1 Peter 2:9) You are chosen, God likes you and wants to hang out with you forever! "Treasure" in Hebrew is "segulah", which means "God's special treasure". You are of great worth. God doesn't give that word to His anointing, the fruits of the spirit, or ministry gifts but says that about your and your life.

"You don't have to worry about gaining the ground of His pleasure, of pleasing God, of asking what you have to do. You are the ground of His pleasure- you're the thing He longs for!" And its so simple. All we need to "do" is say YES to Him. There will be a revelation of who we are and of His affection that will awaken a passion for Him.