A Living Treasure Map
Family Devotions – Eccl. 9:2 – the bottom-line conclusion that the wisest-man-ever comes up with: “all things come alike to all”. If you separate God from wisdom you lose hope as Solomon apparently had. Contrast: “and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him” (Heb 11:6). A worldly Solomon finds that there is little use to do good because the same thing happens to every person regardless of their behavior. The writer of Hebrews finds that if you seek God diligently in your walk, He is pleased and will reward accordingly.
Our problem then is to actually travel through each wind in life’s road looking for God. We tend to look at the event itself as a reward or punishment. We might go so far as to try to see how God is working through the event(s). The reward isn’t for seeing God working, it is for painstakingly trying to find Him: “diligently seek him”. Life then, is A Living Treasure Map leading to the ultimate treasure—God Himself. The difference between a worldly treasure map drawn on paper, papyrus or parchment and this living treasure map is that the dead map has only one treasure at the very end of the road while our living map has infinite treasures hidden in, on, through and ultimately because of the road the map leads us along.
In National Treasure 2, the hero found a map hidden in the very paper that the Constitution was written on. Our living map’s treasures are there because we are given this hidden quest, the most important quest—To discover the rewards that are God Himself.
