turning trash into treasure

We love finding discarded things and making them treasures. Objects that were garbage receive places of honor;

Old glass worn smooth by the waves and the sand fills jars on shelves.

The houses of dead sea creatures are turned into elaborate Jewelery.




On February 26, 2007 it was reported that a 1909 Honus Wagner tobacco card, formerly owned by Wayne Gretzky, sold for $2.35 million US to an anonymous Southern California collector. This makes the card the most expensive baseball card ever purchased.  This was tossed out by a person at one time.

 As the saying goes; "one man's trash is another man's treasure". All it takes is for one person to desire it. We have collectibles and antiques, tag sales and flea markets, eBay and Craigs list.

We don't want it  but someone will give me good money for it.

And Jesus comes and messes it all up. Jesus

He doesn't value the discarded and old for being discarded and old.
He's not like the kids in countries we see on TV looking for scrapes of death to keep them alive in mountains of refuse.

He doesn't think trash is treasure. He makes treasure out of trash.

For us this impossible. It's like trying to make a bowl of oatmeal when the only ingredients we have is a pork roast, some diet coke and an eel.   Only he can make one-plus-one to equal three.

He wants. He died to do it. Demons know it. He took five hundred pieces of junk out of a man one day and stuck them inside a pig. The man was trash, he made him a treasure. (Mark 5:1-20)