“If thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding; if thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures; then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.” Prov. 2:3-5.

When my youngest son was a toddler he loved to play with my keys.  He would climb up to the counter that I kept them on and take them to play with….eventually leaving them dropped in some obscure place when he was finished playing with them.  When it came time to go somewhere and I couldn’t find my keys I would always tell my two older children to look for them.  I would look as well but the kids always found them because they were closer to the same level that their younger brother was, and while I was looking in a higher area they were looking at the same level of a toddler. 

In this world many people put the wisdom of man above the wisdom of God.  It is those who are close to God who will find the hidden treasure of God’s truth.  The truths in the Bible are an inexhaustible treasure, but we fail find it because we fail to look for it.  The Bible sits on a book shelf or in a box in the storage closet while we read the supposed wisdom of man.  As we study the Scriptures, we should pray for the light of God’s Holy Spirit to shine upon His truths so that we may see its treasures.   Jesus said, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure that a man discovered hidden in a field. In his excitement, he hid it again and sold everything he owned to get enough money to buy the field.  (Matthew 13:44)

“This is life eternal, that they might know Thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom Thou hast sent.” John 17:3.

The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, til the whole was leavened.  Matthew 13:44

Last week I decided to make some homemade bread.  I hadn’t made bread in at least 15 years and I was a little apprehensive.  I used to knead it by hand and it was a lot of work.  But now I have a Kitchen Aide that does the kneading of the dough for me.  Making bread is so much easier now.  I was a little apprehensive about the recipe I was following which said to put the yeast in with the flour and other ingredients then add the warm water.  For anyone who has made bread before you know that you usually, or at least I used to, dissolve the yeast in a little warm water with sugar then add it to the rest of the ingredients.  I was afraid the yeast wouldn’t be activated and I would be left with a useless lump of dough that wouldn’t rise.  When the mixer finished kneading the dough I covered it with a towel and set it in a warm place to rise.  I anxiously checked it several times and was pleased to see that it was rising just as it should.

The yeast only works when it is incorporated into the bread where it can’t be seen.  If you were to mix up the dough and then roll the outside of it in a coating of yeast it would not make the dough rise.  As Christians we need the work of the Holy Spirit inside of us working to change us.  Just putting an appearance of Christianity on the outside will not change us on the inside.