Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.
The verse lays gold up as dust and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks, though the gold of Ophir is the choicest earthly treasure and its heaping up as common stones pictures immense wealth. It stands within a call to know God, to receive His words, and to make Him one's treasure. Beside the Almighty Himself earthly gold is of little worth, for He is the greater treasure.
Still more precious than that finest earthly gold are pure faith and love, a spotless character made pure in the blood of Christ, and the grace of God that gives clear discernment of spiritual things and exposes sin. Through Christ's sacrifice people can be lifted up and made more precious in God's sight than the gold of Ophir. Those who call themselves rich and in need of nothing are in true spiritual poverty and wretchedness and blindness, and they must humble their souls before God and obtain this heavenly gold.
The verse lays gold up as dust and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks, though the gold of Ophir is the choicest earthly treasure and its heaping up as common stones pictures immense wealth. It stands within a call to know God, to receive His words, and to make Him one's treasure. Beside the Almighty Himself earthly gold is of little worth, for He is the greater treasure.
Still more precious than that finest earthly gold are pure faith and love, a spotless character made pure in the blood of Christ, and the grace of God that gives clear discernment of spiritual things and exposes sin. Through Christ's sacrifice people can be lifted up and made more precious in God's sight than the gold of Ophir. Those who call themselves rich and in need of nothing are in true spiritual poverty and wretchedness and blindness, and they must humble their souls before God and obtain this heavenly gold.