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Matthew 13:44, “The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up. Then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.”

I want you to imagine for a moment coming to the end of your life, and standing before your Creator as he shows you a life of your movie. Everything you did in your entire lifetime. And imagine realizing you missed the whole point of life.

Sadly, that will be many of us. Oh we’ll make it to heaven, we’ll gain our ticket of entrance into the Holy Gates – not because of a single thing we did, but all as humble and unworthy recipients of what the man on the cross did for us. But the time we had here on earth was wasted. We focused on the wrong things. We stressed about things that weren’t within our control. We rushed through the important things. And we quite simply missed the point.

Here, standing with God having the experience of eternity and seeing our life as a movie, we would have a new found perspective of the time we were allotted on Earth. We would see that this entire time we were spiritual beings having our human experience. Really nothing more and nothing less. We were never bodies that just happen to also have a soul. We were first and foremost souls that were gifted these bodies for just a brief moment in the history of the world.

Seeing this, knowing this, understanding this – we would be able to return to this life and get it right. With Heaven’s perspective we would know what’s truly important and what isn’t.

And what is it we would have found – TREASURE. Hidden treasure. Right here in our own lives.

Now, let’s read Jesus’ Parable of the Treasure again. “The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up. Then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.”

Oh that God would give us a heavenly perspective, right here as our spiritual selves have our brief human experience. We would let go of everything we’ve been holding so tightly in order to obtain the real treasure. The treasure of the time and opportunities we’ve been given here of eternal importance. Once you recognize what is truly valuable, your entire definition of a good life changes.

WHAT IF YOU COULD SEE THE TREASURE NOW?

What if God could give you just a glimpse today of what you will understand when this life is over?
What if you could see your life from Heaven’s perspective—not to make you feel guilty about what you’ve done, but to help you recognize what actually matters while you still have time to do something about it?

I think we would be shocked.
We would look at the things we spent so much time worrying about and wonder, ‘Why did I give that so much of my attention?’
We would look at the things we were chasing and say, ‘Why did I think that would make me happy?’
We would look at the things we were so afraid of losing and realize, ‘Those things were never mine to keep anyway.’

And then we would see the things we almost missed.
That conversation that was the last one, when we didn’t know it was the last one.
The sunset we were too busy to notice.
The person God put in our path.
The chance to say, “I love you.”
The ordinary Monday that we rushed through because we were waiting for something more exciting to happen.

And we would realize: THAT was the treasure.

Not the bigger house.
Not the nicer car.
Not the perfect body.
Not the job title.
Not the bank account.
Not the perfectly organized life.

Those things aren’t necessarily bad. But they were never the point. The treasure was hidden in the middle of the life God has already given us.

And isn’t that exactly what Jesus says? The man finds treasure hidden in a field. He doesn’t have to travel across the world to find it. He doesn’t have to manufacture it. He doesn’t have to