I just realized I forgot to post this blog on Friday…so here it is, better late than never.
I heard on the news today that since the first of the year, trillions of dollars have evaporated in the world market (I missed the exact number of trillions, but it was trillions). This causes me to wonder why it is we put so much stock in what others say and think. I mean, if a house is worth $50,000 to me, why would I pay $100,000 for it just because someone else tells me that it’s worth that? The trillions of dollars evaporated because it was never really there to start with. What a great word to use to describe the phenomenon: evaporated. It is not that trillions of dollars were hidden or burnt, it just evaporated because it was never there! If someone told me that house was worth $100,000 and I wanted it bad enough to pay that price for it…even though I did, that still doesn’t mean it’s worth it (I'm not an economist, but you get the idea). Well, here’s something that is worth eternally more than the cost: salvation. Christ offers it free to all who will believe in him, even thought the price He paid was tremendous. It’s unfortunate, but there are people in our world who will invest much too much in material possessions that rust and moths destroy and turn up their noses at a gift that is priceless.
I heard on the news today that since the first of the year, trillions of dollars have evaporated in the world market (I missed the exact number of trillions, but it was trillions). This causes me to wonder why it is we put so much stock in what others say and think. I mean, if a house is worth $50,000 to me, why would I pay $100,000 for it just because someone else tells me that it’s worth that? The trillions of dollars evaporated because it was never really there to start with. What a great word to use to describe the phenomenon: evaporated. It is not that trillions of dollars were hidden or burnt, it just evaporated because it was never there! If someone told me that house was worth $100,000 and I wanted it bad enough to pay that price for it…even though I did, that still doesn’t mean it’s worth it (I'm not an economist, but you get the idea). Well, here’s something that is worth eternally more than the cost: salvation. Christ offers it free to all who will believe in him, even thought the price He paid was tremendous. It’s unfortunate, but there are people in our world who will invest much too much in material possessions that rust and moths destroy and turn up their noses at a gift that is priceless.
And FREE!!!
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