Issue #1164 – Floating Diamonds – May 29, 2023
Watching the sun sparkle and flash from the ice cubes in my glass reminded me of a spring day some years ago.
The weather had been a little cooler than the seasonal norm, but spring was here to stay. The red-winged blackbirds were nesting heavily, and the pussy willows had started popping out earlier in the week.
Other than in a few small spots, the ice was finally off the lake. I saw small floes of ice floating around in various places. They ranged from about the size of a baseball to that of small wastebaskets.
The flows were made of crystal clear ice, faceted by the wind and water to look like rough diamonds. In fact, when the sun hit them, that’s exactly what they looked like to me, floating diamonds.
Real diamonds the size of those little ice floes would be valued in the tens of millions or more. People would have killed to have them or traded everything they owned to get their hands on them. The diamonds would have ended up in museums and the hands of the world’s wealthiest collectors. People from the world over would come to see them.
In a few days or less, these floating diamonds were melted. They had become part of the lake, indistinguishable from the rest of the water.
Ultimately, despite the claim of diamond marketing coops that “Diamonds are forever,” real diamonds will have no eternal value. They are more common than most people realize, and the world supply is tightly controlled to keep prices elevated. As cliché as it sounds, we can’t take our diamonds with us. Those sparkling stones will be of no value to us in either heaven or hell.
We will kill, covet, and mortgage our lives and souls for something that looks pretty and conveys status but which we can keep for a few years at best.
Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Matthew 6:19-21
Even if the ice burgs had been actual diamonds, and I had collected them all, I would have gained nothing for eternity.
For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul? Matthew 16:26
Everything we have, desire, covet, scheme for, hate for and go to war for is meaningless if we don’t know Christ.
One soul coming to know Jesus is worth more than all the worldly wealth we can accumulate. Where is your heart? Is it tied to the stuff of temporal value or things that last forever?
May the desires of your heart be the things of God.
Be Blessed
Hallelu Yah / Praise God
Kevin
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Soli Deo Gloria (For the glory of God alone)
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