NOTES for Мф 13:44-58
In the parable of the treasure hidden in a field, what is most striking is that the Kingdom of Heaven is acquired not at the cost of some incredible efforts, not through self-sacrifice and heroic struggle, but in great joy over unexpected wealth. Selling everything this man had seems to him like a very profitable deal, since his wealth was apparently not great if it could buy him only a patch of land.
Here, as in several other parables, the point turns on the incomparability of the Kingdom and what we possess without God. Certainly, for the sake of the Kingdom one has to give something up; but if one remembers, and not only remembers but also comes to know by faith and experience, that the price of the field and the value of the treasure are simply incomparable, then such a "sacrifice" will not be a sacrifice, but the most "profitable contract" of our life.