“Again the Kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls: Who when he found one pearl of great price went and sold all that he had and bought it.”
Matthew 13: 45-46

Jesus often taught using parables in which He used references to earthly things to help the hearers understand spiritual principles. This is one of the many parables Jesus used to help his disciples understand what the Kingdom of Heaven really was all about.

In this parable the merchant who finds the pearl of great price – considers it to be of such great value that he sells everything he owns just to possess it. It becomes an investment with eternal rewards. As Christians, we
have purchased this most valuable of processions through our repentance and confession of Jesus Christ as Lord of our lives.

The ultimate price was paid by Jesus himself who willing gave all that he had not sparing his own life, to secure eternal life for us. He fully understood that value of the Kingdom and purchased it with his own blood on the cross.

“Looking to Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; Who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.” Hebrews 12:2

By Michele Brown, The Church Online