Heavenly Father’s priceless treasure
Although she is a gentle and amiable girl, she has high aspirations and always wants to achieve great things. However, after getting to know God, I realized that such a meager strength of a person is nothing after all. Only God can truly change people's hearts. So after that, another wish arose in my heart, hoping to be reused by God; between earthenware and jade, I always hope to become the jade of God.
Yet I also know that God is the potter and I am the clay. The clay cannot dictate to the potter how you want to make me. Make me a valuable jade vessel instead of an inconspicuous earthenware vessel. So he sighed and wandered for a long time in the childish boredom of wanting to make jade but not knowing God's will.
During a literature ministry seminar, I heard Teacher Su Wen’an talk about “Heavenly Father’s priceless treasure.” He told two short stories. One is the plot of a movie, in which two people went hiking in the snow and were trapped on the mountain due to an avalanche. All that was left with them was a small chocolate bar and a large bag of hundred-dollar bills that had fallen from the crashed plane during the expedition.
What is the value of a pack of hundred dollar bills? What is the value of a small chocolate bar? However, in the cold weather with no water or food, they lit a fire with hundred-dollar bills to keep warm, but they carefully opened the small chocolate bar like a baby. You two took a lick, and I took a lick. One bite, a way to survive while waiting for rescue.
Another story is about two vases owned by Mr. Su’s friend’s house. Once when he went to visit a friend, he was struck by the brilliance of a glass vase in the living room as soon as he entered the living room. The spotlight in the room softly shone on the vase, making the whole room look dazzling. A friend told him that the vase was bought at a flea market for only a few dollars.
Later, the friend took him to the small attic on the top floor of his home, opened the cabinet hidden in the innermost room, unlocked the drawer, took out a package, and carefully lifted off the layers of soft gauze cloth. It was a very well-protected package. A good box; open the lid and see a jade bottle. Friends said that this jade vase has become an antique and is worth tens of millions, but they dare not take it outside for fear of being stolen, so they have to hide it in a boudoir to cover up its splendor.
These two stories made me think deeply. Sometimes, those who make jade can turn into dung, while those who make earthenware are extremely precious.
In fact, perhaps it is the same in the eyes of God: whether it is a jade vessel or an earthenware vessel, as long as there is light from God in the vessel and we are children in line with God’s will, then we are the priceless treasure of the Heavenly Father! In God's wonderful hands, no matter how humble a vessel is, it can be of precious value. As for whether to make earthenware or jade, that is only human pursuit, not what God values.