Monday's Musings

I read this story in one of the devotional websites that I read on a daily basis. The words spoke to my heart and reminded me of the blessings of God that are bestowed on my life on a daily basis. Many of these blessings have gone unnoticed until I took the time to discover them. Life has a way of hiding the Truth of God from us but we can discover the Truth if we take the time to allow the Holy Spirit to open our eyes to the "treasure trove" of God's blessings!!

Unless you are a baseball fan, married to one, or mom to one, you probably haven’t heard of Matthew Joseph White. He signed with the Cleveland Indians in 1998, the Boston Red Sox in 2002, and the Colorado Rockies in 2003. But it is not his baseball career that captured my attention.

In 2003, Matt had an aunt who needed to go into a nursing home. She didn’t have the funds to make the move, but she did have a piece of land in his home state of Massachusetts. So Matt agreed to pay her $50,000 for the 45 acres of mountain real estate, which gave her enough to enter the nursing home and get the care she needed.

Matt’s original intent was to build a home on the property, but found the ground too hard. When he called a surveyor to inspect the acreage, he discovered treasure lying beneath the rocky soil. The land was solid Goshen stone, a type of valuable mica. Approximately 24 million tons of mica schist rock, worth about $100 per ton, had been resting on the mountain for thousands of years. The estimated worth of Matt’s land was two point five billion dollars. (2.5 Billion dollars)

The enemy of our soul wants us to forget the "mountain" of riches that we have in the written promises of God found in the Bible. Take time to read Ephesians 1 and realize just a few of the "riches" that God has provided for us through Jesus Christ. These "riches" become the basis of our faith, trust, and hope in Christ!! 

Praise God from whom all blessings flow!!!