Throughout history gold has been a highly-valued commodity. During the Gold Rush, many people left everything...homes. families, some devoting their entire lives to the pursuit of it. God is a treasure far more precious than all the wealth on Earth, but unlike gold, He is not hard to find. He truly is a God who shows Himself. His truths are richly woven into the fabric of all creation. Our greatest insight into the very heart and mind are the Scriptures, but to find the real treasure, we must dig deep into the remote recesses of the Rock himself. One thing you will most certainly discover is the deeper you dig, the deeper He gets. In all eternity we will never be able to plumb the depths of God. It is my hope that perhaps through my own search for that 'Treasure above all Treasures' you will find something which will have some meaning for you. R.Whelan

Sunday, August 7, 2011

PLAYING TO AN AUDIENCE OF ONE

“All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players,” so says Shakespeare, and in a way he could not be more right. We are all playing out our lives before one another. According to the Scriptures, our lives are played out before a 'great cloud of witnesses'. But I believe it is best, if in our mind's eye, we narrow the size of our audience to only one.

Our lives should be played out before God, seeking to please Him and Him alone. In doing so we will please some, we will offend others, but, since He is the only critic who really matters, why worry about the others so much. He is the one who will write the review at the end of our performance. He alone looks past the act into the motives behind what we do. Only He truly knows how well we played the part that was written by Him just for us. © Rachel Whelan August 2011