If you own an antique vase from Q'in Dynasty, will you cherish it?
A four-year-old boy once reached his little hand into an expensive vase but got stuck in it, anxiously not knowing what to do. His mom tried all her best to "undo" what the child "did", such as lubricating with soap water, all eventually in vain. She could have crashed the vase only for fear that this vase might be her husband's treasurous family heirloom. Mom told her son with a somehow discouraged voice: "Dad will soon be home. Don't worry; let him help us with this later."
Soon Dad went back and noticed the situation of emergency; he stared at the vase a little while, beholding his panic son and helpless wife, and broke the vase with a hammer determinedly. The vase scattered into pieces after a big bang, only to see nothing but a fist, seemingly holding something firmly there.
"Have you always been keeping this way right after you reached your hand into it?", asked the father gently. The son nodded sobbingly. It turned out that there was a coin in the child's palm, and he just didn't let it go. If he had loosed his hand, his father would have not needed to hammer the vase out.
It sometimes costs parents a precious family treasure to save a child who would keep a penny in his hand. Likewise, it might cost God His priceless heirloom to save His innocent people who could never pay attention to Him but focus on those trifles.
How valuable is God's heirloom? Or, let me put it this way: how important are you? Well...
The life of His only son, Jesus.
Original story by Bill Perkins, retold by pollinkrys
A four-year-old boy once reached his little hand into an expensive vase but got stuck in it, anxiously not knowing what to do. His mom tried all her best to "undo" what the child "did", such as lubricating with soap water, all eventually in vain. She could have crashed the vase only for fear that this vase might be her husband's treasurous family heirloom. Mom told her son with a somehow discouraged voice: "Dad will soon be home. Don't worry; let him help us with this later."
Soon Dad went back and noticed the situation of emergency; he stared at the vase a little while, beholding his panic son and helpless wife, and broke the vase with a hammer determinedly. The vase scattered into pieces after a big bang, only to see nothing but a fist, seemingly holding something firmly there.
"Have you always been keeping this way right after you reached your hand into it?", asked the father gently. The son nodded sobbingly. It turned out that there was a coin in the child's palm, and he just didn't let it go. If he had loosed his hand, his father would have not needed to hammer the vase out.
It sometimes costs parents a precious family treasure to save a child who would keep a penny in his hand. Likewise, it might cost God His priceless heirloom to save His innocent people who could never pay attention to Him but focus on those trifles.
How valuable is God's heirloom? Or, let me put it this way: how important are you? Well...
The life of His only son, Jesus.
Original story by Bill Perkins, retold by pollinkrys
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