Imagine you are destitute, hungry, abandoned, ostracized, and cast out of the town you live in right now. Then imagine circumstances worsen! There is a famine, you are starving, a foreign power invades your city, and you enter into what looks and feels like a scene out of a dystopian movie. Things look hopeless, but then an extraordinary thing happens. You stumble across a pile of extremely valuable treasure. We are talking great food, clothes, gold, silver, the works. It is way more than you can ever use in a lifetime. This is incredible news in a time of mass starvation and extreme suffering. What do you do? That is the question we’ll tackle this Sunday as we look at a somewhat obscure and yet fascinating story from Scripture that teaches us what we are to do as recipients of some truly incredibly fabulous news.
