Genesis 43:23
And he said, Peace be to you, fear not: your God, and the God of your father, hath given you treasure in your sacks: I had your money. And he brought Simeon out unto them.
Joseph made a great statement when he responded to his brothers about them finding their money in their sacks when they returned home. Joseph said, the God of your father, hath given you treasure in your sacks. The sacks are symbolic of your life. God has put treasure in your life that you are to care for and use for His work. What you do with that treasure of your life will determine whether God uses you mightily or whether you squander the opportunity for God to work in your life. Let me share some lessons from this vital truth.
First, you are no mistake with God. God intricately designed your life. What you consider a mistake is part of God’s divine plan for your life. Some may say that you have a handicap, but God calls your handicap a treasure in His hands. What you consider a weakness is God’s providence in your life. Never question how God has made you because He has a purpose for making you the way you are. He put you in the home that you were brought up in for a purpose to make your life a treasure to help others. He gave you the personality you have to make your life more valuable in His hands. He gave you the physical frailties you have so that He can receive the glory through your life when He reveals the treasure of your life to others. Every part of your life, including how God made you, is no mistake.
Second, God expects you to use your life wisely so that He can multiply that treasure of your life. God does not want you to squander the treasure of your life. God expects you to take the treasure you have and multiply it. God does not hold you accountable for what another’s treasure is, but He holds you accountable for what you do with your life. The fact that God gave you life means He invested in your life, and He expects you to take your life and make the most out of it for Him.
Third, your life is not to be wasted on yourself but to be used for God. The prodigal son is an example of someone who wasted his substance in the riotous living of the world, and he found his treasure was wasted as he looked at the slop of the hogs. You can live life for yourself, but you will find at the end of life that you wasted the potential God had for your life had you lived your life for Him. The greatest potential in one’s life is only experienced if they live their life for God. You will never know the treasures your life could be until you choose to live for God.
Fourth, your life will never know the treasures God has placed in it until you surrender your life to God. My friend, the key to finding the treasure in your life is by putting your life in God’s hands and following what He wants you to do with your life. You can follow your dreams and miss out on what God could have done through you, or you can surrender what you have and find that God will multiply your life far beyond what you could have ever imagined.
Let me challenge you not to waste the treasure in your sack. That treasure of your life was given so you can be a blessing and a help to others. When you live for others is when God multiplies the treasure in your life so that He can use you to help more people. The life that gives themselves to God to be a help to others is the life that will know the joy of life and will experience the multiplying of the treasures of your life far beyond your expectations.