The Parable of the Gold Coin

I had a significant dream almost seven years ago.  I knew that someday, I would be asked to share this dream.  Today is that day.  I came across the dream in my journal, and the Spirit nudged me to share.  I hope and pray that someone who needs it will read it.  I have thought back on this dream many times, and I thank God for the knowledge that He gave to me through it.

The Parable of the Gold Coin

Treasure!  I found myself in a group of people surrounding a treasure.  We had somehow discovered gold coins in piles and in sacks stacked high.  The room glittered with the golden glow of reflected light.  

Greed flashed across the faces of the people surrounding the treasure. We gathered armfuls of coins, trying to get as much as we possibly could carry at one time.  To our utter dismay, the coins crumbled to dust and blew away, worthless.  Try as we might, the coins kept crumbling as we continued to take handfuls.  What was the secret to keeping the treasure?  What was the secret to keeping the gold coins from crumbling?  

People split off and went in different directions seeking the answer.  Some went abroad seeking the worldly views and opinions.  All wanted to find the answer first so that he/she could get the most treasure and beat the others in a supposed competition.

The people kept coming returning to the treasure again and again, trying some of the ideas they had found.  Some tried scooping the treasure with objects other than their hands, thinking that if they didn't touch the treasure it would remain intact.  Others tried chants, trying out magic combinations of words that might unlock the secret.  Yet, each time, the gold coins crumbled.  

I stayed near the treasure; camping on the top bunk of a set of bunk beds.  Oh, how I wanted that treasure!  I had a few sacks around me.  I reached my hand into a sack and brought out a handful, not of the gold coins that I sought, but of quarters, nickles, and dimes.  I didn't want those!  I wanted GOLD!!  

Even as those thoughts entered my mind, the quarters, nickles, and dimes turned to sand, thus becoming useless.  I had lost even what I thought I did not want.

I reached my hand into the sack again and pulled out a single quarter.  How grateful I would be if even the single quarter would not crumble. Then, to my amazement, the quarter remained intact between my fingers!  

That's when the answer hit me!  The answer did not lie in worldly knowledge of finance and the the properties of gold.  It did not lie in competition or getting more than another.  The answer did not lie in magic chants.  

The answer was of God and came from within.  The answer was GRATITUDE!  To be grateful for even the quarter when the gold coins were in sight.  We must be grateful for where we are and what we have, no matter how small and insignificant it may seem compared to what others may have.  

I then walked over to the piles of treasure and picked up a single gold coin.  With gratitude in my heart, I marveled as the gold coin shone and did not not crumble.

We all had been trying to grab more than another person, more than we needed at the present time.  We  had been grabbing as much as we possibly could like hungry wolves trying to compete for a dead carcass.  We had grabbed handfuls, scoopfuls, armfuls, but we never had tried to grab a single coin. 

I looked at the piles of treasure and knew that I would have what I needed for the future.  The Lord would provide, and for now, I was ok having a single, precious gold coin.  

Conclusion

I won't tell you all the lessons and symbolism I have discovered in this parable.  I will let you draw your own conclusions. I will end with some scriptures:

*Proverbs 15:6 - "In the house of the righteous is much treasure: but in the revenues of the wicked is trouble."

*Proverbs 10:2 - "Treasure of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death."
*Matthew 6:19-21 - "Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt and where thieves break through and steal:  But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:  For where you treasure is, there will your heart be also."

*Jacob 2:18-19 - "But before ye seek for riches, seek ye for the Kingdom of God.  And after ye have obtained a hope in Christ ye shall obtain riches, if ye seek them; and ye will seek them for the intent to do good."

Much LOVE!

Heather