Martha confirmed her belief in Jesus as the Son of God before the Lord raised Lazarus, her brother, from the dead. Goodness and evil in the world will get sorted out, like wheat and weeds growing together until harvesttime, or like saleable and scrawny fish caught in the same net. Desiring heaven entails giving our all. Jesus compared the mindset to a merchant who sells everything to buy one rare pearl. In Jesus’ hometown of Nazareth, people knew Him as the son of Mary and the local carpenter. They remained skeptical, despite miraculous works and the wisdom of His teaching. In the immediacy of day-to-day goals and efforts to achieve them, do we always put our hopes in the context of heavenly treasure?