1. He came looking for you and gave it all for you.

2.  Hag 2:8 The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the LORD of hosts.  God sent is only Son John 3:16

3. The discovery of gold set off a gold rush in 1849, thousands came to California looking for the precious metal. They left every thing they had. Php 2:7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:

4.  1Ki 6:21 So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he made a partition by the chains of gold before the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold.

5. Job 28:10 He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing.

6. Your life may be turbulent but like that golden nugget you are valuable and Jesus came looking for you. He left it all for you and I.

8.  Lu 22:42 Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.  Lu 19:10 For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.

9. Its dirty work It’s hard work It is back breaking and takes patience When you where lost there you were in some stream bed stuck in the sand, some one came and started sifting patiently because they could see the value. God sees the value in you.

11.  Lu 15:7 I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance. Isa 13:12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.

12. 1Pe 1:7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ: