If we do what the psalmist here says he did, God’s Word will then be a hidden treasure to us. But have you ever thought that the Lord Jesus has a hidden treasure in this world today? Yes, this is quite true, in spite of all the wickedness and wicked people still on the earth. If you will turn to the thirteenth chapter of Matthew, and read the forty-fourth verse, you will see what we mean.
In that verse, the Lord Jesus Himself is the “Man” who is spoken of, for, as you know, He was once down here in this world as the Son of man, who came to seek and save that which was lost. So He speaks of all those whom He has saved, even little children, as His treasure; and if any one of you who has not yet come to Him will do so, even while you read these lines, you may be quite sure that you will at once form part of His “hidden treasure.”
Let us read a second time that forty-fourth verse very carefully, and then we will go back to our text in the psalm,
“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which, when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof, goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.”
In our chapter in Matthew we learn that Jesus gave His life that He might make you, by believing in Him, part of His hidden treasure. And if we thus belong to Him, we can then do what our psalm-text says, we can hide His Word in our hearts that we might not sin against Him.
Some years ago we knew a young girl who, we are glad to say, used to go to Sunday school. It was the teacher’s custom to get all her class to learn a text in the week, and repeat it to her on the next Lord’s day. By that means this young girl learned a great many portions of Scripture by heart.
A time came when she was taken very ill, and had to keep her bed; in fact, she did not get well again, but after a rather long illness, the Lord took her to Himself.
The reason why we write about her is this. As she became very weak, and unable even to read for herself, she used to lie and think of the beautiful words of Scripture which she had committed to memory. The Lord spoke to her soul in this way, and she was saved through true faith in Him who had died for her.
One day she said to her mother, “O! mother, I am so thankful that I learned so much of God’s Word when I was well; for now I can think upon it, although I am too weak to read; and it makes me so happy.”
Let us all imitate this young girl, and so make God’s blessed Word our “hidden treasure,” and if there should be any one of you who has not believed in the Lord Jesus before, may you come to Him now, and thus belong to His “hidden treasure.”
ML 10/29/1944