Lasting Jewels

Now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.

1 Corinthians 13:13 HCSB

https://bible.com/bible/72/1co.13.13.HCSB

Growing up watching my mother and grandmother preserve fruit, I know there are ways to ensure fresh fruit lasts longer. I visited Japan where the common folk preserve fruit by drying. I must say they make the best preserved persimmons ever. I dislike fresh persimmons but their dried variety in the most delicious dried fruit I have ever tasted.

Growing up in rural Australia we had a backyard full of fruit trees. We had the biggest and most succulent peaches called Yella Mundies. As to the veracity of the accuracy of this name, it sounds awfully like a nickname.

Mum preserved these peaches and they were very sweet. Nowadays I like to dry fruit in my Japanese drying cage. I have tried all manner of fruit with a modicum of success, I particularly like dried mango.

The ancient Egyptians preserved bodies through embalming. Yet when these bodies are dug up they are black and dry.

Yet the above scripture tells us there are some things that do not dry up. They always remain fresh: faith, hope and love. We can trust these to be there for us. As children of God we are given them when we ask Christ into our lives. They are the jewels, sitting, waiting to be worn. Try them!