Today's Gospel presents us with a series of short but profound parables. Jesus compares the Kingdom of Heaven to a hidden treasure, a pearl of great price, a fishing net gathering every kind of fish and finally a wise scribe who brings out treasure both old and new. Jesus says: "The Kingdom of Heaven is like treasure buried in a field, which a person finds and hides again and out of joy goes and sells all that he has and buys that field."

The man does not sell everything because someone forces him. He does not do it reluctantly. Jesus says he does it out of joy. Christian discipleship is not first about sacrifice. It is first about discovering something so beautiful, so valuable, that everything else becomes secondary.