The Devotional – 1086 – Foot Steps in Second Corinthians, On Going

The Devotional – 1086 – Foot Steps in Second Corinthians, On Going

Have you a little stash hidden away somewhere, a treasure? Yes the question is not worthy of an answer. I do not desire to know, but I do want you to think about this subject since a stash does not always mean money or hidden treasure of any value. A stash could be a can of peanuts, a bag of candy or some other collection of trinkets that you keep from others. Maybe your stash is a group of pictures of times past, or maybe it is a bit more private. Whatever the case; your stash is well protected from the public, we are all good at hiding our stash from public view or comment. 

CHALLENGES & COMMENTS – 2 Corinthians 4:7-15

Verse 7 – We (includes anyone) who believes by faith in the Son of God, we have the treasure (a gift) from God who has placed this gift inside our earthly body (our very being of flesh). Let me qualify the words (believes by faith). John 11:25 – Jesus speaking to Martha His friend says this to her.

“I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?” She said to Him, “Yes LORD, I believe that You are the Christ, the Son of God, who is come into the world.” ONE question by God and ONE answer by a human – this is all that is required to enter the kingdom of God.

There are only two answers to God’s question, you can answer YES or you can answer NO, the words “maybe later” or “I’m busy” is simply a NO with an excuse. If you say yes; God immediately gives you His treasure, Ephesians 1:3-14 explains at least 15 spiritual attributes of this treasure whom we know and understand to be the Spirit of the Living God in us. Also the apostle goes on in this chapter from verse 15 – 23 to pray for you and me to have the spiritual wisdom to live daily in this treasure. This brings us back to 2 Corinthians.

Renouncing our earthly treasure for the excellent treasure of God in us is one that is most difficult. Things of shame, or things of the crafty mind like to take preference over the things of God. In fact; we can be very good at including the fleshly mind in handling the Word of God deceitfully; this is called “carnality” by the apostle in 1 Corinthians 3:1-4. This carnality, believe it or not is described by Paul in verses 8-12 and it is “persecution” on all who are seeking to live in the excellence of the Power of God – spiritual people.

The apostle says – how can this be? We all have the same spirit of faith as it is written, “I believed therefore I spoke, the apostle is referring to Psalm 116, a song of the redeemed under persecution. We in churches today need to heed the warnings of the apostle’s epistles. Knowing that He who raised up the LORD Jesus will also raise us up as well and present all of us at the Bema Seat of Jesus Christ. The treasure (spiritual or earthly) in us will be evaluated.

2 Corinthians 5:9-11 coming up but prior to this we will look at our need to see the invisible. That is; to FOCUS on our treasure for it is a far exceeding weight of eternal glory. This will give you and me a better understanding of the coming resurrection. This assurance is so needed by all of us, since the body we live in is only a temporal tent that houses your soul which belongs to God.