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)

“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

Mike Benson