Costly Service

The Kingdom of God is used as service to God. He calls the Kingdom a treasure hid in a field. Treasure, when it is found, is meant to be guarded. For everyone who is in the plan of God must do well to guard it. We must guard our service to God.

After he found the treasure in the field, he bought the field. He sold all he had to buy the field. The work of ministry is costly. Have you seen the work as valuable? Can you sell all you have to buy it? We must be able to do anything to keep our service to God. Serving God must cost you. If serving God does not cost you, then you are yet to serve.

There are people who resigned jobs in the city to go to a remote village to start ministry, and the reason is because they have found treasure in the service of God. One of the reasons why a man can sell all he had to buy the field, the reason why he can sacrifice for the work of ministry is firstly because he recognized the service of God as a treasure that must be valued. So our service to God is a treasure that must be guarded.

The woman with the Alabaster box in Matthew 26:6-13 recognized Jesus as a man sent from God; that was why she honoured him and poured all the expensive perfume on him. In service to God, recognition is very important. We must see the church and men of God in the church as valuable. Seeing our service to God as a treasure helps us to value and guard it.