Have you ever noticed where God placed his treasure on this earth?
The treasure is not gold, but Gospel. Not silver, but Good News. Not hard, cold cash, but grace, love, and peace.
God could have left his treasure with the politicians, the ones who are responsible for collecting taxes, building schools, and passing laws, but God didn’t.
God could have left his treasure with Zechariah, the high priest, but his unbelief took him out of the picture.
God left his treasure in the least likely of places: in the love, care, and nurture of a first century pregnant, peasant girl chosen as the “handmaiden of the Lord.”
God’s treasure was left with the most powerless figure in the ancient world…..with Mary.
Doesn’t that tell you something about where God’s grace and treasure are to be found in today’s world?
Thanks to Fr. Tom Long for these thoughts.
“For where your treasure is, there your heart will also be found.” Matthew 6:21
What treasure has God placed in YOUR heart? How have YOU shared YOUR treasure with others?
WHEN GOD THROWS SOMETHING YOUR WAY, CATCH IT!!
My Commentary:
Have you ever noticed that God’s idea of treasure looks nothing like ours?
We instinctively look for value where power resides — money, influence, credentials, control. Yet the Gospel keeps telling the same surprising story: God places what matters most where the world least expects it. Not in vaults or institutions, not in palaces or positions of authority, but in human hearts open enough to receive it.
God did not entrust his treasure to politicians, though they shape societies. He did not entrust it to religious power, even to a high priest, when unbelief closed the door. Instead, God placed the greatest gift the world has ever known into the care of someone with no public standing, no voice, no leverage — Mary, a young, pregnant peasant girl living on the margins of history.
That choice tells us something essential about God. Grace does not flow downward from power. Grace rises quietly from humility. God’s treasure is not protected by status but by trust. Mary had no army, no title, no platform — only a willingness to say YES. And that was enough.
If God placed the Gospel there — among the overlooked, the vulnerable, the powerless — then perhaps that is still where it waits to be discovered today. In places we rush past. In people we underestimate. In lives that seem ordinary, fragile, or even insignificant. In the people our government wants to capture.
God’s treasure is not hidden from us.
It is hidden in plain sight — where love is chosen, where faith is trusted, and where humility makes room for grace.
Early sales of my new book — WHAT MAKES AMERICA AMERICA – have been very good.
I have 62 Chapters that look at every aspect of life in America, from Food to Farmers. Here is the link https://a.co/d/00Lyqe1C that will connect you with my Amazon order page. Click READ SAMPLE and you can read the first Two Chapters of my book for FREE.
