Honus Wagner. Odd name, great baseball player. He was one of the first five players ever inducted into the hall of fame. And his baseball card is the most prized card among collectors. One Honus Wagner card sold for $2.35 million this week. Why would anyone pay $2.35 million for a baseball card??Because it is both rare and ancient.
The combination of being rare and ancient makes the Honus Wagner card nearly invaluable. People will go to extraordinary lengths to own such a card. I would suggest the same is true of God’s love for us. It is ancient, it is rare, and our souls crave it.
Erwin McManus describes God’s rare love for us in his book, Soul Cravings:
“…We’re faced with a dilemma—we can’t earn love, we can’t buy love, and we can’t live without it. We know in the pit of our stomachs that if love is conditional, it can’t really be love at all. We also know that if love is unconditional, we are neither the sources nor the instigators of such love, which again is a part of our conflict. We want what we do not give. We long for what we seem incapable of producing.”
God’s love is also ancient. I’ve heard the Bible described as a love story. From beginning to end, it is a story of God’s pursuit of those He loves. God loved each of us before we were born, before our parents were born, before the creation of the world.
What lengths should we go to in order to gain this kind of ancient and rare love? This incredible thing is this - - none. God’s love is unconditional. We don’t have to pay $2.35 million. We don’t have to do anything to earn His love. But we should go to great lengths in cherishing His love.
I’m sure there were plenty of people who had Honus Wagner cards at one time. Maybe they used them in their bicycle spokes as kids. Maybe they lost them, sold them in a garage sale, or just threw them away. They didn’t recognize the value of what they had.
May we never forget the value of God’s rare and ancient love for us.
God’s love is also ancient. I’ve heard the Bible described as a love story. From beginning to end, it is a story of God’s pursuit of those He loves. God loved each of us before we were born, before our parents were born, before the creation of the world.
What lengths should we go to in order to gain this kind of ancient and rare love? This incredible thing is this - - none. God’s love is unconditional. We don’t have to pay $2.35 million. We don’t have to do anything to earn His love. But we should go to great lengths in cherishing His love.
I’m sure there were plenty of people who had Honus Wagner cards at one time. Maybe they used them in their bicycle spokes as kids. Maybe they lost them, sold them in a garage sale, or just threw them away. They didn’t recognize the value of what they had.
May we never forget the value of God’s rare and ancient love for us.
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