January 13, 2014 (Monday)
I bought my first new car in 1959. It was a 1959 Chevrolet Biscayne. I paid $1,995 for it.
It’s a shame that I had not heard about the Rolls-Royce Celestial Phantom. I might have bought it instead. After all, it sells for only about $475,000. It is set with 446 genuine diamonds in the special wood panels in the doors and compartment dividers. Its headliner is decorated with the constellations, all lit up just like the sky of January 2003, when this model was first created.
When you pour your morning coffee, do you continue to pour after the cup is filled? No, because if you do, you will have a mess. Enough is enough. Any more is too much.
I would say that the Celestial Phantom is too much. No matter. You probably won’t waste your money on one of them, since most all of them are sold in Du Bai, where money flows like rivers, and people buy lots of things they don’t really need.
Once we have enough, would it not be appropriate to think about the people who do not have enough, due to no fault of their own? Opportunities to help others abound in our world, and we who are followers of Jesus Christ will want to follow his footsteps to places and people in need. When you help the needy, you eventually discover a secret: God blesses you. “Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you” (Luke 6:38 NIV).