Amen.

Hey, what's going on?

Alex here coming at you live from a hotel here in Kauai, Hawaii.

Lockelaani and I are celebrating our 32nd birthday.

She's two days older, and it's been a fun day, more fun ahead.

But I thought I'd stop here and tell you what I've been learning as we have studied for

the next episode of AMN podcast

called Joy.

And in studying for it,

there's a little nugget about lost opportunities.

Let's get into it.

Matthew 13, 44, it says,

the kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field,

a man found it and covered it up,

then in his joy goes and sells all he has and buys that field.

What's going on here? Well, we see at least three things. Number one, the need that we discover

when an opportunity is lost or when we're about to lose an opportunity, the problem with lost

opportunities, and then lastly, the solution to stop losing opportunities.

Let's jump into it. So the commentator on this verse, one of them, he was saying that a preacher

once brought up an important impactful note saying that, think about the guy who sold this

field to the man in our parable. So stories like this were

told all the time in antiquity because there is mass poverty. And so this guy finds treasure in a

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