If you go to an antique dealer with a baseball card, you might get a bit of money. Why is that? The buyer remembers the person on the card and the value is associated with the player. Now take that same card and have it be signed by the player. It has even more value because it was handled by the player on the card and signed in his own hand. Now go one step further: what if the previous owner of this card was a celebrity on his own and the player made it out to that beloved famous person? It might be so valuable it becomes priceless instead of just valuable. Who can raise the funds to add such an item to a collection and pay a fair rate?

“On the day when I act,” says the Lord Almighty, “they will be my treasured possession. I will spare them, just as a father has compassion and spares his son who serves him.”

Malachi 3:17

When God chose to adopt us as children, he paid an impossibly high price and made us not just a treasured possession but one which no one else could bid on. We are his most precious treasures!

Ethan Kirl