Pearls of Great Price

A pearl of great price is anything you are NOT willing to give up to BUY the pearl of great price. To buy the pearl of great price (which, ironically, is both free and already owned by the purchaser), one must sell--i.e., utterly give up--absolutely everything that is relied upon besides it. The pearl of great price requires exclusive billing.

Illustration: You are cast out of an aircraft. In your hands you hold a parachute and a pillow. In your mind you hold onto the fantasy that the pillow will save you by softening your inevitable impact upon the earth. You know this is nuts, and that you could completely eliminate the disastrous end you are facing by letting go of the pillow and donning the parachute, which you cannot do with the pillow in your hand, but that means letting go of the pillow you rely upon.

Decisions, decisions. Let go of everything except the parachute, or forfeit the use of the parachute to keep the pillow. Pretty freakin' expensive pillow!

Neville noted in his lecture, "The Pearl of Great Price," that the Pearl is imagination. THAT is Jesus Christ! THAT is YHWH acting in our world to save, to eliminate the bad and to bring forth the good. THAT is the Creator of our world: IMAGINATION--the Big Guy in the field. But we have to love him to the exclusion of everything else.