KneEmail - a devotional by Mike Benson associated with Forthright Magazine
Value
POSSESSIONS OF THE powerful, wealthy, or famous, no matter how common, can become extremely valuable, even priceless...
Napoleon's toothbrush sold for $21,000. Can you imagine paying thousands of dollars for someone's cruddy old toothbrush? Hitler's car sold for over $150,000. Winston Churchill's desk, a pipe owned by C. S. Lewis, sheet music handwritten by Beethoven, a house once owned by Ernest Hemingway. At the Sotheby's auction of Jackie Kenndy Onassis's personal belongings, her fake pearls sold for $211,500 and JFK's wood golf clubs went for $772,500. Not because the items themselves are worthy but because they once belonged to someone significant.
Are you ready for a surprise? We fit that bill too. Think of the value of something owned by God. What incredible worth that bestows on us, what inexplicable dignity! We belong to Him. (Charles Swindoll)
KneEmail: "But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim this praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light." 1 Peter 2:9
Bible reading for 08.04.09: Romans 7; Psalms 66, 67
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