NOTES for Mat 13:44-58
Is the Kingdom of Heaven worth everything we have? For example, the man in the parable goes and joyfully sells all he has and buys the field with the treasure. For him it is clear that treasures are buried in a perfectly ordinary plot of land, and so he gladly makes this deal: everything in exchange for everything.
The trouble is that for us, as for many of Jesus' listeners, the value of the Kingdom is not obvious. We would gladly sacrifice everything we have for a worthy cause - but where is the guarantee that it is worthy?
Our task is to find the treasure as well: to learn in practice that a treasure is buried in a poor vacant lot, one worth more than everything we can have. That is, to touch by experience what is more beautiful than all the other meanings of our life - and this is not easy. In any case, to find such a treasure one must search... or at least want to find it.