Treasure
And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart. Jeremiah.29.13
People are transformed by studying the Bible.
A graduate with a Major in Marketing worked in a number of corporations in the sales marketing division. He later opened his own computer and cellphone business in a busy suburb. His business was successful, yet he sensed a quest to find better in his spiritual life. Then he started attending various religious denominations that he could find and settled with one which had the doctrine “Once Saved, Always Saved!”.
Despite being content in the current spirituality, a stumble on the verse in Romans 6:15 (What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.) got him to entertain doubts about the doctrine. Which led him to study the Bible more deeply.
After a study on the subject, he presented it to the church meeting and asked the question: Do we really need to keep the Ten Commandments? Some pastors responded NO, while others said YES but only nine (that’s excluding the fourth Sabbath commandment) based on Colossians 2:16 (Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holy day, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:).
This got him confused and from a more Sabbath study led to:
Isaiah 8:20 (To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them)
Isaiah 56 (Thus saith the Lord …)
Isaiah 58:13 (If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words)
A prayer and asking for guidance led to more confusion. To make matters worse, his best friend hated him, his girlfriend left him, then he gave up on religion.
It was a dark point in his life and he cried to the Master. ‘Is this the result of keeping Your Commandments?’ He almost gave up hope until he read the Bible more sincerely which gave comfort.
After months of studying the Bible without going anywhere in the spiritual aspect, a customer one day entered the shop bargaining for a low price to get his computer fixed. Something caught the spiritual attention to a label on the gadget ‘Master of Arts in Religion’. Asking the confusing question, he asked the client ‘Do we really need to keep the Ten Commandments?’. Instead of an answer he was asked a different question, ‘What is sin?’ Not sure of an answer he replied, ‘a disobedience by Adam and Eve’. That is true the client replied with yet another question, ‘What is the definition of sin?’.
1 John 3:4 (Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.)
What is your religion? the shop owner asked. ‘Brother, religion is not important; the truth is more important.’
This led to a more searching the scriptures, gathering of fundamental beliefs from different denominations until one day he stumbled on some literature ‘The Great Controversy‘.
Oh what joy to walk with Christ daily. Preparing to receive the prize for those who search and do daily. The shop owner is now a missionary. He sold the business and is working on saving others by spreading the Good News of the Saviour’s coming.
Lord, thank You for not leaving sincere seekers of Your Word in the dark. You guide them in their search and help them find the mark.