Looking After True Values

Daily Scripture Threshing for Saturday, November 27, 2021

Today’s Text: 2 Corinthians 4:7-18

Key Verse: 2 Corinthians 4:18 (NIV): “So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.”

I stumbled on a story of Anna Mary Robertson, popularly known as Grandma Moses. She was a gifted but self despised artist who always underrated her own paintings as primitive. However, when her paintings were brought to the Antiques Roadshow for appraisal, she was stunned to see how her work commanded attention and attracted high price. She had offered to sell the paintings under ten dollars each. But when appraised, the paintings were being valued at $60,000 each! Grandma Moses never thought of her works as valuable. She always parted with them for next to nothing. And her story has now become a veritable inspiration to many believers in Christ today, who fail to realize the value in them; who often give up that which is priceless for a little temporary pleasure or advantage.

There are a few necessary questions for you and I today: What are the underrated godly virtues and values in your life and mine? Do we not all disparage God’s providence, despise His love, and cheapen His grace? How often do we abandon that which matters most for the things that do not even matter at all? Why do we gaze with all our eyes and hearts at perishable immaterial things and wink at the permanent treasures? Why do we find it hard to yield this scripture’s admonition to fix our eyes on true values. O friends, God wants us to look steadfastly, deliberately and decisively, paying attention, not as one that contemplates—on the objects of our faith. We must not cheapen our lively hope through Christ. It’s greater than all earthly wealth put together. It ensures a glorious immortality. It’s eternal life. It promises the crown of glory, the glorious reward, and an eternal fellowship with God.

Quote for the Day: “The closer we gaze upon the glory of heaven the brighter they shine not just before us, but also upon us.” (Simon Olatunji)

Prayer: Dear Lord, I trust you for the grace I need each day to set my eyes, my heart, and my mind, on things above; and to diligently run the race that You have set before me, in Jesus’ name. Amen.

With all my love and prayers,

Rev Simon Wale Olatunji, Ph.D

The Darling Bishop (DaBishop)

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