I was looking through an old journal yesterday. I love seeing where God has carried and kept us. This was written in 1990 about my two-year-old daughter, who is now a Senior in college:

“Lord, it is Easter. My children were in the front yard searching for plastic eggs filled with treasures of candy, coins, stickers and such. I noticed Kaylee picking up each egg, rapidly shaking each one, saying to herself, ‘Hey, waaassss in dare?’ (Hey, what’s in there?) Then she would drop each egg and move on to find another without ever putting the eggs in her lovely basket or opening the egg to reveal the treasure. Her brother Jacob, 20 months older, eventually noticed she was missing out. He walked over to her and said, ‘Silly, you gotta open it up to get the good stuff!’ And he showed her how to do just that. Well, Little Sis did not waste anymore time shaking and asking, “HEY…WAAASSS IN DARE?” She gathered every egg into her basket to treasure and enjoy.”

That is why I love listening to sound bible teachers. We all could use a brother or sister to come along side us to show us how to study God’s word. I try to follow the lead of those brothers and sisters who walk the walk and have discovered how to reveal the treasures of God in Holy Scripture. They don’t just shake things up, they dig for buried treasure!

Let’s give thanks for the Pastors, Bible teachers, small group leaders, and mentors that have helped us crack open our Bibles and find real treasure.

“I want you woven into a tapestry of love, in touch with everything there is to know of God. Then you will have minds confident and at rest, focused on Christ, God’s great mystery. All the richest treasures of wisdom and knowledge are embedded in that mystery and nowhere else. And we’ve been shown the mystery! I’m telling you this because I don’t want anyone leading you off on some wild-goose chase, after other so-called mysteries, or ‘the Secret’” (Colossians 2:2-4 The Message).

Well, in the words of my precious Jacob, “Silly, You gotta open it up to get the good stuff!” Open the book friends, there are treasures that will far outlast the trinkets we buried in Kaylee’s Easter eggs that day long ago.

—submitted by Kathy Lonsinger, Speaker and Founder A Gentle Answer Ministries