The Treasure Inside

If I were an apple, would you eat me so you could be fed? Would you cut me open to find the seeds inside that, if planted, will produce a tree with unknown quantities of reproduction?

If you were an apple, would you let me eat you so I could be fed? Would you allow me to cut you open so I may plant the seeds found inside?

If you knew you had exactly what someone else needed to survive could you let someone open you up to get it?

Inside me and inside you is found a treasure placed their by our Creator meant to bless someone else. Are you willing to be vulnerable so you can also be useful?

"Then Jesus said to his disciples, 'If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it.'" (Matthew 16:24-25)