What To Invest Our Lives In

Jesus compared the Kingdom of God to treasure hidden in a field.  Someone, knowing that the treasure was hidden in the field, sold all they had and bought the field.

Roman law at the time of Jesus provided that if you discovered treasure on land owned by someone else, you had to give the owner half of the treasure.  Similarly, Jewish law placed limitations on the ownership rights of the discoverer of treasure on land that someone else owned.  Consequently, the reason why the discoverer purchases the land is to acquire ownership of the entire treasure.  The discoverer purchased what appeared to others to be a parcel of little value, because they knew that the field was of infinite value, due to the hidden treasure

Followers of Jesus in ancient times were often called "People of the Way." Life is about a series of choices and decisions.  We all have one life to invest, and we make choices of what we will invest our life in.  Those who live under the Lordship of Christ in the Kingdom of God follow the "Way" of Christ exemplified in the cross; centered in service to others.  This appears to human culture as of little value; like an empty field.  People of the way know that it is worth investing all of our life; because we know the story of the cross and the nature of God revealed therein