The Superior Treasure
"I rejoice in your promise like one who finds great spoil.” Psalm 119:162 NIV
"This I know," thunders Charles Spurgeon in Morning and Evening. "I had rather have God for my banker than all the Rothschilds." He continues, "My Lord never fails to honor His promises, and when we bring them to His throne, He never sends them back unanswered."
The inspired writer of Psalm 119:162 makes the same valuation. Put treasure or spoil in my hand or in my vault, he speculates. I'll weigh the promises of God in His Word at least equally.
Yes, the Word itself is a gift incalculable, but I think there is more here. That's why like the focus of the New International Version specifically on the PROMISES of the Word. God's promise that He will provide is functionally the same to the psalmist as if he already saw the means of provision, indeed of abundance. We may consider, in fact, that we, his heirs, have the better deal.
Jesus warns that he who draws on this world's treasures for security need concern himself with thieves and depreciation. The promissory notes in God's Word are invulnerable to either. The ages as they pass venerate that Word and expose the skeptics who believe that soon to pass from the scene. Many have been the thieves who would remove it from its exalted position, only to find themselves entranced by and testifying to the same biblical majesty by which God exalts His Word above His Name.
By naming Himself Yahweh, the Becoming One, in fact, our Heavenly Father shows Himself again superior to any spoil or treasure He could bequeath. If our found metallic wealth were our backstop, we in trouble would need to convert it into the necessities of life. Yet the Father Himself, Jesus assures, knows what we need and translates His character into such humble demonstrations as our food and clothing. He is the Hebrews 11 Treasure convertible, ever undiminished, ever invulnerable, and we his sure recipients of divine, compounding interest.
"This I know," thunders Charles Spurgeon in Morning and Evening. "I had rather have God for my banker than all the Rothschilds." He continues, "My Lord never fails to honor His promises, and when we bring them to His throne, He never sends them back unanswered."
The inspired writer of Psalm 119:162 makes the same valuation. Put treasure or spoil in my hand or in my vault, he speculates. I'll weigh the promises of God in His Word at least equally.
Yes, the Word itself is a gift incalculable, but I think there is more here. That's why like the focus of the New International Version specifically on the PROMISES of the Word. God's promise that He will provide is functionally the same to the psalmist as if he already saw the means of provision, indeed of abundance. We may consider, in fact, that we, his heirs, have the better deal.
Jesus warns that he who draws on this world's treasures for security need concern himself with thieves and depreciation. The promissory notes in God's Word are invulnerable to either. The ages as they pass venerate that Word and expose the skeptics who believe that soon to pass from the scene. Many have been the thieves who would remove it from its exalted position, only to find themselves entranced by and testifying to the same biblical majesty by which God exalts His Word above His Name.
By naming Himself Yahweh, the Becoming One, in fact, our Heavenly Father shows Himself again superior to any spoil or treasure He could bequeath. If our found metallic wealth were our backstop, we in trouble would need to convert it into the necessities of life. Yet the Father Himself, Jesus assures, knows what we need and translates His character into such humble demonstrations as our food and clothing. He is the Hebrews 11 Treasure convertible, ever undiminished, ever invulnerable, and we his sure recipients of divine, compounding interest.
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