The Gold of Faith and Love
Yet how few of the seekers return rich; and none return satisfied! Many sell health to obtain the precious metal; many more barter character; many families are forever sundered; and oftentimes a grave in a distant land of buried hopes and a wasted body is the end. But God offers gold, the gold of faith and love, the gold that has all the promise needed of the life that now is, and the eternal promise of the world to come. The Lord of heaven and earth says, "I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire." And that purchase is "without money and without price." If you will give yourself to him, if you will accept him for yourself, you have all heaven's riches in Jesus Christ. He can not reveal the riches he will give you here. Time is too short. But "in the ages to come" he will "show the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus." All may share in these riches, and to each are they infinite.