I think that Jesus was a treausure hunter.

In the book Freakonomics there is a description of the book that caught my eye.
here it is.
"So the aim of this book is to explore the hidden side of ...everything. This may occasionally be a frustrating exercise. It may sometimes feel as if we are peering at the world through a straw or even staring into a funhouse mirror; but the idea is to look at many different scenarios and examine them in a way they have rarely been examined. In some regards, this is a strange concept for a book Most books put forth a single theme, crisply expressed in a sentence or two, and then tell the entire story of that theme: the history of salt; the fragility of democracy; the use and misuse of punctuation. This book has no such unifying theme. We did consider, for about six minutes, wtiting a book that would revolve around a sinle theme--the theory and practice of applied microeconomics, anyone?--but opted instead for a sort of treasure-hunt approach. Yes, this approach employs the best analytical tools that economics can offer, but it also allows us to follow whatever freakish curiosites may occur to us. Thus our invented field of study: Freakonomics. The sort of stories told in this book are not often covered in Econ 101, but that may change. Since the science of economics is primarily a set of tools, as opposed to a subject matter, then no subject, however offbeat, need be beyond its reach."

When I read this description I thought about the unifying them and the way I read the bible. Is it a tool or suject matter? Could it be that I read the bible for the "History of religion; the fragility of the church; the use and misuse of the knowledge of good and evil?" I like to think that no subject, person, etc. no matter how offbeat is beyond the redempive claim of God. Beyond the understanding of God. I see Jesus approach people in such a way that he finds the treasure of their heart. He sees into their heart and what they value most, fear most, controlled by and he frees them. The book the forgotten ways by alan hirsch talks about putting religion and spirituality back in the hands of the common man. Jesus had such wonderfull methods. I think that his tools were what we call the fruit of the spirit.

I cannot really explain what I am trying to say here. It seems cryptic, but I would love to talk about your treasure if you want to.

I was speaking with my wife yesterday about wrestling. She watched me and my friend throw down in his living room. She said "women don't do that." "They fix eachothers hair and nails" etc. It dawned on me that men seek to cultivate strength in one another and women seek to cultivate beauty. In the blog dazed and confused I talked about how Hazing seeks to take a mans strength and a womans beauty. Then I spoke about how time takes everyones (external) strength and beauty. we cannot escape that. If you are a person whose treasure is their looks or strength then you know all to well that it is fading as you get older. I think that to us Jesus says, but what about you character? Your spirit? The eternal gifts that I have granted you. You focus on the temporal and treasure the temporal, but it is failing you. Go and cultivate that which death has no hold on. The life I have given you.