Friday's Devo - You are His Treasure

Read 1 Chron 27: 23-25
David numbered the people but didn't count the ones under 20 because he knew that God's promise was that their seed would be as the dust on the earth. His words were: "and I will make your seed as the dust of the earth; so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall your seed also be numbered." Gen 13:16 Numbering speaks of judgment and it is not time to judge the earth. So everytime they started doing it in any fashion God got angry. Joab was in charge of this and discerned God's disapproval and stopped before he finished. He wisely never recorded any data he had found.
Verse 25 starts giving us an account of the overseers. I would think that these would be the spirits in the unseen world that protect the things of God. The first overseer's name meant "strong one of death". His job was to protect the treasures of the king. God's holy treasures in the Old Testament were in the Holy of Holies and onle a select person could go in once a year and there was a protocol that had to be obeyed or they were met with instant death. Many who have tasted of the deep things of God then turned away from Him have been turned over to Satan for the destruction of their flesh (death) that their spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. (1 Co. 5:5)
What is in the treasuries of the king? According to 2 Chron. 32:27 and Neh. 13:12 they are filled with gold (wisdom), silver (knowledge), precious stones (his saints), spices (our prayers, good works and trials), shields (our faithful victories), and all manner of pleasant jewels ( us. I wonder if the precious stones are the ones that have gone before us and the pleasant jewels are the ones on earth at the time.) the tithe of the corn (His Word) and the new wine (his joy) and the oil (his anointing). "We have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us." 2 Co. 4:7
Let's let our light so shine that it will give God glory and draw others to Him.