Spurgeon's Daily Meditations
The pearl of great price
“Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.”
Christ is the pearl. There may be many goodly pearls in this world — friendships, hopes, honours, gifts — but one pearl is of unmatched price, and that is Christ. He who finds Christ has found that for which it is wise to give up all.
Observe: the merchant sold all that he had. Not half — all. He did not bargain with the seller, did not try to keep back something. There is no half-discipleship. To gain Christ, one must lose oneself. To have him as treasure, one must own no other treasure. To live unto him, one must die unto everything else.
Is the surrender hard? The pearl is so great that the price is forgotten in the joy of the having. He went and sold and bought — and never looked back, never wished his goods returned, never repented of the bargain. So shall it be with every soul that gets Christ.