The following is from an on-line devotional that I publish for my church and its friends. From time-to-time I use something to raise the evangelistic temperature. This is an example.

“Treasures”
Reading: Colossians 2.1-3
BY Steve Dunn

     Landisville and Salunga are twin towns that sit side by side along the Harrisburg Pike northwest of Lancaster. The pike forms Main Street for both communities. Every Memorial Day they become home to a huge, almost wall to wall yard sale, that extends along this thoroughfare and then branches out into the side streets feeding off of Main. It creates quite a carnival of bargain hunting, and a creeping traffic jam for about 8-9 hours. (Think Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge but with less expensive junk, and perhaps more useful stuff.)

     I had one of those garage sales. I made $65 in my “this is not going back into my garage sale.”
Not bad for 10 cent to two buck sales.  Enough for 2-3 trucks from the collectors/vendors at the parks and some extra cash into the bank. In fact, I only had less than a table’s worth to put back into the garage. Two tables became very valuable to people when I simply marked “free” on their contents a little before noon.

     It is said that one man’s junk is another person’s treasure.  That it is if you can get the junk out of the basement or out of the garage into the street.  But once that stuff comes into the light of the day, all kinds of people would like to possess it.

     Of far greater worth than used lamps, tee shirts, kitchen pots, and golf bags is the mystery of God. It contains the treasures of wisdom and knowledge that once you begin to understand them, will change your life forever.  Paul says here that we need to labor to get that treasure into the spiritual light of day, no matter how great the struggle. People are waiting to grab hold of it.  So start cleaning that treasure out of the private places of your home and get it into the street.

This e-mail devotional THRIVING IN CHRIST is published on behalf of the Church of God of Landisville PA and its friends. © 2008 by Stephen Dunn. All rights reserved. Subscription matters can be sent to Patty at coglandisville@coglandisville.org.  Directly communicate with Steve at sdunnpastor@coglandisville.org