he went away and sold everything he had and bought it."
Unfortunately, that parable has been interpreted to mean that Jesus is the
pearl of great price, and that when we see what a valuable person he is we
will sell all we have and buy him. But that is entirely contrary to every
other teaching of Scripture. We do not buy God. We cannot purchase him or
purchase our salvation in any sense. We have nothing to offer him! We must
come, as the old hymn puts it, "Nothing in my hand I bring,/Simply to thy
cross I c