The Best 94 Cents I've Spent

Dear Reader,

This post has absolutely nothing to do with fireworks...
but with the Fourth of July coming up though, they work just fine.
Let the entry begin.

At the beginning of my freshman year in college, I went to Barnes and Noble and bought what I thought to be the perfect journal. I'm way too picky about line spacing and page size...and they happen to always be right on target when it comes to my journal options. This journal has a beautifully painted image of a tree on both sides, leather, made in Italy. I thought that there was no way I wasn't going to NOT finish the journal by the end of the year...

or so I thought.

Being someone who writes quite a bit, I also have multiple journals for completely different purposes. The Barnes and Noble journal I bought was the this-is-what-I-did-today journal. I also have my prayer journal...and this isn't an incredibly expensive journal from Barnes and Noble.

I go to Wal-Mart.
I spend 94 cents on a Composition Book.
I walk out a happy customer.
I walk out a happy "journaler".

Usually what happens is I get some good ol' duct tape and collage the Composition Book with pictures and quotes to make it more my own. Then, I have a handy bag of Bic Pens (nothing fancy, and they work better than those fancy pens sometimes), and then I just write.

I've realized recently that I have gone back more to those 94 cent Composition Books and discovered more revelations, answered prayers, and words from God than I ever did in my expensive day-to-day journals. I go back and see countless notes from seminars, church services, and mentoring sessions and flashback to elementary school when I was the one that just took notes on field trips (YES...I did). I read each word in the presence of God and realize that all that He has spoken to me, that has ended up penned on a blank page is a TREASURE.

Have you ever noticed how in movies that when someone or a small group of people are either hunting for and find treasure, they're not quick to run out and tell the entire world? Even the journey to find the treasure is kept between the explorers themselves in order to reach it timely enough to claim it as theirs.

The same goes for those times where I spend with God. The journey of seeking after what He is wanting to speak to me through His Word is an adventure and must be passionately pursued every step of the way. As each treasure is found, He reveals the time, place, person, to which it will overflow from my life.

Dearest reader, I come to you saying treasure whatever the Lord shows you. I even encourage you to write them down along the way. As you begin to treasure what the Lord shows you...

you never know when you may hand the map over to someone to find their treasure for themselves :)

I have saved the verse for last today:

"I rejoice in your word like one who discovers a great treasure."
Psalm 119:162

If I do not write Monday, have a splendid, safe, fire-work-filled Fourth of July!

God Bless,

JB