What wonderful insight the above verse gives us. How many of us who live in warm homes, having achieved success and wealth, would freely give up all we have worked for in order to help someone else. Yet that is what Jesus did. He wanted to provide everlasting life more than He wanted comfort.
He was rich beyond measure. His home was built with walls “garnished with all manner of precious stones”. Yet He gave it up to be born, even laid in a dirty cattle trough as a babe and then raised in a lowly carpenter’s home when He could have been a King.
The street was pure gold, as it was transparent glass”, yet He
gave it up to walk the dusty roads to heal and teach. He chose to be a pilgrim in a wicked land; a
land where He was sought with human intent to discredit and kill Him.
He gave up the
greatness of His glory as those in heaven proclaimed, “Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is and is to come”
in order to be rejected by men; to be ridiculed and laughed at as a crown
of thorns was placed upon His head.
He gave up “a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal” to be spit upon, degraded, and nailed to a cross to die in agony and take the sins of all mankind upon himself.
In return for His sacrifice all He asks is found in John 3:16, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
So what is in store for us if we believe? Riches galore! Everlasting life! A home garnished with all manner of pecious stones, streets of pure gold, a heavenly host of angels proclaiming God’s glory, a pure river of water of life!
Matthew 6:19-22a "Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven,…"
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