A Lesson Found in Jewels

I am at the point of my adulthood where I have started to appreciate and accumulate more jewels of great price through gifts and passing down from generations. I found myself looking more at other women’s jewelry, admiring some of the pieces, and wanting even more jewels to round out my collection, for the first time ever, as I have not been a jewelry person for most of my life.

It got to a point where I asked my husband for a new jewelry box for my birthday, and on it, and he had a cross engraved. I thought the cross engraving was a nice gesture, but then I started to wonder what that cross was trying to tell me. It seemed peculiar that this was on a jewelry box. 

Like many, I have gotten caught up in earthly “pearls of great price” - the jewels, wealth, inheritance, and other stuff that we accumulate that are valuable to us. The cross engraving was a reminder that Jesus and the Kingdom of Heaven is the true pearl of great price. All the jewels I could ever own can’t amount to what is most important: Christ, His Truth, His Word, His Love, and Eternal Life. 

This jewelry box had something to teach and remind me.

May that engraving I look at each day when I put on some of my jewels always be a reminder to me as I accumulate more jewels through the years, and may I always be open to selling these treasures for the true treasures a life in the Lord offers. That is the test of our lives: Are we willing to sell and renounce it all for the pearl of great price?

The psalm echoes something similar today, “The law of your mouth is to me more precious than thousands of gold and silver pieces.” Do we echo that too in our daily lives, or are our “jewels” more precious to us? What is truly the most precious to us in our lives? Our answer to this says everything about where we are in relationship to God.

Today is a day to reflect on the "jewels" of our lives, and if Jesus is the #1 jewel we'd sell everything else for.