Porcelain Coated Vanity
“He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves wealth with his income; this also is vanity. When goods increase, they increase who eat them, and what advantage has their owner but to see them with his eyes? Sweet is the sleep of a laborer, whether he eats little or much, but the full stomach of the rich will not let him sleep.” Eccl 5:10-12 (ESV)
Sometimes the truth can come from the simplest places. One afternoon, after all had gone home and maintenance had begun, three men were having a conversation concerning the mistreatment of a toilet repair. The toilet had been removed from it’s rightful place in order for a new wax seal to replaced. While the wax seal was being purchased, someone had decided to still make use of the toilet causing the man replacing the wax seal to become quite…annoyed.
One of the other men stated that “Someone could be sending you a message Pablo.” In which Pablo replied with some pretty colorful words on how this person was a “low life.” He said they were the kind of person who had no life, no purpose or hope for a future…’ That is why they do this kind of stuff.” Well as the banter went back and forth a point was made on how some men are blessed with a great deal of wealth and boast in it while other men may have been blessed with a great deal but remain humble and suffer the kind of humiliation that Pablo just did this day.
“You see it is like the rich man trying to get his camel through the eye of a needle. It’s all vanity, ya git me?” said our friend from Jamaica. Me being the other man said, “Wow did we just hit on a “Ecclesiastical Truth?” I have read about them in books, studied them in classes and listened to sermons on them but never really had the revelation of one. It was if there really was a message for the three of us that afternoon and we did receive it. That message was…It really doesn’t matter whether we have or have not if we take the wrong view of the wrong being done to us we might as well be the rich guy with a camel trying to get it through the eye of a needle.
In Luke 18 the rich young ruler asks “The Good Teacher” what must he do to get to heaven. Jesus told him to sell everything but the young ruler did not receive this message and became vexed. When Jesus saw this He gave this message…“How difficult it is for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God! For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.” Those who heard it said, “Then who can be saved?” But He said, “What is impossible with men is possible with God.” (Luke 18:24-27 ESV)
The toilet was repaired and the three of us went our separate ways but we do realize this…that what is impossible for us to grasp, understand or even forgive is possible with God no matter what message other men may be trying to send us. Praise God that I am only the Production Supervisor. – Chris Hughes is a graduate of the Colony of Mercy and a regular Freedom Fighter contributor
Compass Pointers: “You can fill your head full of knowledge, but the day that you decide you are going to obey God, the knowledge will get down into your heart. You will know. Only the servants of truth can ever know the truth. Only those who obey can ever have the inward change.” A.W. Tozer
Anchored to the Rock: Prayer is not an argument with God to persuade Him to move things our way, but an exercise by which we are enabled by His Spirit to move ourselves His way. Leonard Ravenhill
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