"Dear-bought treasures"

[JoanneF]

“That he might liberally pour his dear-bought treasures into empty or sin-filled human storehouses, was the inspiration of Jesus’ intense human sacrifice.” (Science and Health 54:10-13)

Jesus’ “dear-bought” treasures came as a result of overcoming all the errors of the world. It made me think, how often when I have had a hard lesson to learn, it was only learned or “dearly-bought” through much suffering. But when it finally was learned, it became a treasure to me, because it filled me with a sense of my dear Father’s love. Then it enabled me to show compassion for others who may be going through the same thing. I needed to have the hardness of my heart wounded enough so I might have the tenderness to feel another’s pain, — and comfort them with Christly love.

I love the poem by A. E. Housman that Mrs. Eddy placed at the end of “Waymarks” (Retrospection 95:4):

“Ask God to give thee skill
In comfort’s art:
That thou may’st consecrated be
And set apart
Unto a life of sympathy.
For heavy is the weight of ill
In every heart;
And comforters are needed much
Of Christlike touch.”

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