Heart

Hey everyone! Sorry about the missed week last week... it was super duper busy around here as I'm sure it was for all of us. Along with that I hope you all had a fantastic Thanksgiving! I have recently started up my daily devotional again and one of the verses I came across was Job 22:24-25. In these verses it talks about lust for money and how, "If you give up your lust for money and throw your precious gold into the river, the Almighty himself will be your treasure. He will be your precious silver." Yea, I think this verse has a lot to do with lust, however, I think this verse talks more about the change of heart after you are saved. See, when I read this passage one thing that really stuck out to me is the switch in verses from "precious gold" to "precious silver." Every time I can think of a reference to gold, it is a bad one. First, there was the golden calf that was made an idol while Moses was on the mountain recieveing the Ten Commandments, and the other is in Daniel when King Nebuchadnezzer made the golden idol for everyone to worship. Then there is silver. Silver is seen as a more pure metal. I think the switch in metals represents the change in our hearts after we become saved. I think this because it says "give up YOUR LUST for money," I highlight "your lust" because it talks about us and what we choose to do, then in verse 25 everything changes to "the Almighty himself will be your treasure." We should all see Jesus as our treasure and our precious silver. One more thing I find interesting is that it says "precious silver." If something is precious to you, you would not go around trashing it or doing things that would hurt its reputation. SO, as we go through our week this week lets just remember that the Lord is OUR precious silver.