More Precious Than Silver And Gold

So now our faith to be centered on, focused on, the all sufficient sacrifice of Christ, and his blood shed, as Peter says, “more valuable than silver or gold.”

Silver and gold are perishable. Silver and gold can be stolen. Silver and gold can lose their value in a down market. You can have piles and piles of silver and gold coins, but if there is no food available, they are worthless. Oil is sometimes referred to as “black gold.” “Black gold” made many a man rich. But look what it’s worth now, in a down market? Big news this week, presently, it is worthy pretty much nothing.

My mother thought of gold jewelry as an investment. She spent thousands on gold jewelry. But what I found out on her passing, her jewelry was in reality worthy much less than she had paid for it. It was considered “used” gold, “junk gold’ by just about any jeweler you would go to. Gold jewelry, I found out, doesn’t appreciate in value, as many people think.

And then there is the obvious thing….silver and gold gets left behind when our time comes to leave this world. Silver and gold can’t accompany you in eternity. They may put it in the grave with you, but it doesn’t go with you, really. That’s why it historically grave robbery was a big problem. Thieves would dig up graves in search of silver and gold. That’s cause silver and gold is only useful to you while you are living. It’s of no value to you in eternity!

NOT SO the blood of Christ! It’s value never depreciates. And its value remains in eternity. THE forgiveness wrought by that precious blood goes with you when it comes your time to leave this world. That precious blood gains you entrance into the glory of heaven.

The precious blood of Christ never loses its value. It is an ETERNAL currency, because of what it represents—Christ’s sacrifice for you, the forgiveness of sin, and escape from eternal death and judgement. . Of greater value than silver and gold, because it gains entry for you and for me into ETERNAL habitations, “an inheritance which cannot perish nor fade.”

Peter makes an additional , very important statement here. The shedding of Christ’s blood, more precious than silver and gold, was PLANNED BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD! It was all according to God’s plan, for your salvation and mine, that that blood, that precious blood, was shed.

So what does this say about GOD, that Christ’s blood was shed? How MUCH he loves us! “For GOD did not spare his only Son, but offered him up for us all.”

What it says about us? How valuable we are to God! If you ever get to thinking that you are cheap, and of no value, or that you are not important to God, think on this: God was willing to give that which was dearest and most precious to him, so that you might have life, ETERNAL life with him!

And not what is left for us to do but place our faith and hope in God who not only gave his Son to DEATH, but who also, as Peter says here, “RAISED HIM FROM THE DEAD and gave him glory.”

HERE is true security. Better than some guy hawking gold in a commercial.