Treasure Within…

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An old beggar lay on his deathbed. His last words were to his youngest son who had been his constant companion during his begging trips. 

“Dear son," he said, “I have nothing to give you except a cotton bag and a dirty bronze bowl which I got in my younger days from the junk yard of a rich lady.”

After his father’s death, the boy continued begging, using the bowl his father had given him. One day a gold merchant dropped a coin in the boy’s bowl and he was surprised to hear a familiar clinking sound.  

“Let me check your bowl,” the merchant said. To his great surprise, he found that the beggar’s bowl was made of pure gold.  

“My dear young man," he said, “why do you waste your time begging? You are a rich man. That bowl of yours is worth at least 50 thousand dollars.” 

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We Christians are often like the old beggar and his youngest son who have failed to recognize and appreciate the value of his bowl. We fail to appreciate the infinite worth of The Holy Spirit living within each of us, sharing His gifts and fruits and charisms with us.

Be encouraged to know that you are a special person and only you can fulfill the purpose to which you were born to accomplish. Never allow yourself to get discouraged, and if you think you cannot make a change and your life is insignificant, then you are assuming that the Holy Spirit is insignificant?

The Bible says that God is the potter and we are the clay. He is the master and we are the servants. With God's leading and the still small voice of the Holy Spirit guiding our steps, we can do great things with our life.

COME HOLY SPIRIT, FILL OUR HEARTS,

ENKINDLE IN US THE FIRE OF YOUR LOVE!

Stay blessed!