The Hidden Treasure

Written on 12 April 2025.

The Hidden Treasure

There was a man named Elias who lived in a quiet village nestled between fields and forests, where few bothered him and even fewer understood him. He was not a preacher, nor a prophet in the eyes of the world—but to those with eyes to see, he was something rarer still: a man who had found the Word of God and held it close to his heart.

He did not stumble across it through the seminaries or megachurches or online revivals. It came to him one day like a treasure in a field. As he read the King James Bible, something clicked—this was the Word of God, not just another version among many, but preserved, perfect, powerful.

Others told him he should go out and proclaim it loudly—start a YouTube channel, debate heretics, correct the ignorant, convert the masses. But Elias read in the Word that one ought to be "ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear" (1 Peter 3:15). Not with aggression. Not with spectacle.

So he chose to hide it. Not like a thief burying stolen goods—but like a man who had found a pearl of great price, and for joy thereof hid it in the field, knowing that some things are too precious to be thrown before swine.

The others didn’t understand. They accused him of being ashamed of the gospel. They mocked him. Some called him a Calvinist. Others made snide videos, saying he was lukewarm, apostate, a coward.

"Get off YouTube," they said. "You’re not one of us."

Elias didn’t answer them. He had learned that there is a time to speak and a time to keep silence. Instead, he spent his evenings beneath an old oak tree, reading his KJV aloud in the golden light, letting the cadence of the scriptures roll through the air like a psalm. Like Ferdinand under the cork tree, he found joy in what others dismissed.

He had no following, no platform, and no praise. But he had peace. And when someone asked him why he looked so calm, he would smile and say, Because I’ve read the Book. And I believe every word of it.