WHAT IS PRICELESS?

WHAT IS PRICELESS

What do we consider to be “priceless?”  It’s hard to say in this day and age: two days after a tornado or hurricane and we have already put a 2 billion dollar value on the damage; your cancer treatment will cost you 1 million dollars; “I’m sorry doctor, the mistake you made reading that x-ray will cost you 200 million after lawyer’s fees.” 

Scripture seems to have a few definitions of priceless: What I am willing to give everything else in my life to obtain, or that which I cannot obtain on my own.  The pearl of great price is obtained by the man selling everything else he owns.  I always wondered what he then did to live!  Did he then go out and sell the pearl?  Would sell everything you have to obtain a single item: the Hope Diamond, a Villa at the Riviera, your health?  What would you then do with your life?

To obtain that which I cannot obtain on my own means it must be given to me.  If the item is priceless, because I could never afford to obtain it (nor anyone else for that matter) then what does that say about the one who gives it to me?  If the item in question is truly priceless, no man could ever obtain it or actually place a monetary worth upon it, then the one who gives it must be the owner of all things!  That makes the priceless item something that only God can provide.

Mary pours a vial of “priceless” (in her world) nard on the heat torso and feet of Jesus Christ and the proceeds to wipe His feet with her hair.  The Lord had given her much: His time, He had raised her brother from the dead, and He was about to give His life to atone for her sin.  In an expression of love she opens the vial and anoints the Messiah.  For the one who has received the priceless, no act of thanks is too great.