A Merchant Seeking Pearls

The Merchant Man is the person who is seeking the best and most beautiful things that life has to offer from all that God has made or given. This merchant man here in this Parable was seeking beautiful pearls, Jesus says. As to what this represents, we can say that in seeking for beautiful pearls he was seeking for things most precious. He is seeking for things of great and lasting beauty and value. He is seeking to have joy and delight in having all these pearls to himself. That is, he was seeking for the things of this world which God has made or that he could experience in relation to what God had made or given him in life. He was seeking to find long lasting joy in the experience of having them or owning them.