“. . . A LITTLE SILVER, AND A LITTLE GOLD . . .”

How much silver and how much gold does it take to satisfy a person in this world?

How much silver and how much gold does it take to ruin a person in this world?

David Jeremiah recently related this story about seeing others’ needs and giving:

A preacher gave a rich man perspective in a very simple, powerful way.

He told the rich man to look out the window to the street below, and he asked him to describe the needs of people he could see.

Then he had the rich man look in a mirror, and he asked him to describe what he saw.

The preacher pointed out that the window and the mirror were made of the same material—glass.

Looking through the window, the rich man could see the needs of others.

Looking in the mirror, the rich man could only see himself.

The only difference was “just a little silver” added to the back of the mirror glass.

 

Lesson taught ! ! !

Lesson learned ? ? ?*

 

Every single time I’ve heard a message on Jesus telling a rich, young politician to sell everything he had and give it all away and follow Him—every time, in every message, the first statement is a disclaimer:

“Jesus is not actually telling us to do that—just learn something from it.”

LESSON NOT LEARNED TODAY ! ! !

 

“I’m satisfied with just a cottage below,

A little silver and a little gold;

But in that city, where the ransomed will shine

I want a gold one that’s silver lined.

 

I’ve got a mansion just over the hilltop

In that bright land where we’ll never grow old;

And someday yonder we will nevermore wander

But walk the streets that are purest gold.”

 

*Lesson not learned in Jesus’ story—“the man went away, sad, because he had great riches.”