 | If this message is not displaying properly, click here to launch your browser. | No Junk Here: You Are Jesus' Hidden Treasure |  Someone once said, "One man's junk is another man's treasure." Or woman's in my wife's case.
She loves yard sales—a lot. On Saturday mornings, when I should be allowed to sleep in, she wakes me up at dawn. She is already dressed and has the newspaper spread out on the counter. The classified section is open, and the page is covered with bright yellow circles.
Those circles lay out the destiny for my "morning off." They're all the yard sales that seem to show promise of a treasure. Beside each yellow circle is a red number. You guessed it; the numbers map out the order in which we are going to travel from yard sale to yard sale.
And so, with cup of coffee in hand, we head out. Not only do we stop and go from highlighted location to highlighted location, Tammi also has her eagle eye trained for cardboard signs stapled to telephone poles. We take detours. We search for that hidden treasure.
There are treasures lurking in the yards of people too cheap to even run an ad. But we will find them. They cannot hide. And there is no yard sale too small.
A blanket on the grass with two piles of clothes on it, a used tire and a broken treadmill, all in the front yard, constitutes a stop. Why? Because there could be a treasure buried under all of that junk.
And you know what? Quite often, people (mostly women) come into our house and ask, " Oh, where did you get this? " And more times than not, the proud answer is, " read more  |    | | | | | | | advertisement | | | | DAILY DEVOTIONALS |  |  | | These I will bring to my holy mountain and give them joy in my house of prayer. Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; Then the Lord said, " My Spirit will not contend with man forever. | | | advertisement | |  You are receiving this newsletter because you are a PowerUp! subscriber. © Copyright 2014 Charisma Media, All Rights Reserved | 600 Rinehart Road, Lake Mary, FL | 407-333-0600 | | |
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