The Best Place to Store Treasure!

     Just say "jewelry" and a woman's eyes light up! I recently watched a woman hover over the jewelry tables that were being set up while we waited in an estate sale line. She couldn't help herself - she would walk away, then turn around and come right back. It was if the jewelry was calling her!

     Another vintage jewelry collector recently asked me which piece of jewelry I would never part with. It was amazing how quickly a certain necklace came to my mind! And though I couldn't remember what I'd had for lunch, I could describe in great detail this favorite necklace...Art Deco...bakelite beads...mesh chain...
    Her favorite was a ring that she declared would need to be "pulled from her cold dead fingers" before she would let go of  it! Extreme, perhaps, but it demonstrates the sentimental value women place on their treasures! Marilyn Monroe called them her best friends!

      If you've ever read the account in Genesis of the search for Isaac's wife, you know jewelry was involved. After Rebekah had watered a bunch of camels, the servant sent to find Isaac a wife, realized she was the one, and put a "nose ring on her nose, and bracelets on her wrists". More "jewelry of silver, jewelry of gold" followed. Rebekah left her home to marry a stranger - and I've wondered if the jewelry might have helped (just a little) in the decision process!

     At the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, you will find this beautiful Hellenistic mummy, decked out in her finest jewelry. When women want to look good, they always open their jewelry box. This woman was determined to look good for eternity!

 


     Something beautiful, something valued, something precious...

     Something we love to wear, and store in chests and boxes...

     But not eternal...

     "Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in Heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." Matthew 6:19-21.

     Someday, all our beautiful trinkets and treasures will pass from our grasp. Though the woman had her sarcophagus painted with jewelry on the outside, she herself would become dust. All her costly adornment didn't matter in the end.

     What will matter is where our treasure lies. Is it in Heaven? Have you believed in Jesus Christ and placed your trust in Him to take you there?

     "Lord you are more precious than silver.
      Lord you are more costly than gold
      Lord you are more beautiful than diamonds
      And nothing I desire compares with you."
                                                         -Lynn De Shazo