For fourteen years Jim Vonderhaar faithfully invested money in Mel Fisher’s hunt for sunken treasure. His investments cost him a chance to own a home, new car and new clothes. He travelled to the search-site 138 times in those years. And followed up visits with calls to the expedition’s office. His friends considered him crazy.
Then Mel Fisher’s Treasure Salvors found the Atocha, the object of their long pursuit. The Spanish galleon sank off Key West in a 1622 hurricane. Her main cargo hold revealed treasures of gold and silver worth $300 million. Suddenly, crazy man Vonderhaar owned ½ percent of $300 million. He joyfully banked his $2 million check. For every Christian investing his life in Christ’s spiritual treasure:
Those who demand present fulfillment:
Christians will not only have gained the graces God grants daily life:
Yours for a faith that lives forgiven now and glorified later.
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The late humorist Art Buchwald professed ignorance of what happens after death. Yet, during his hospice stay, he continued to speak of heaven as the place where he would continue after death. That’s a problem in our culture: we exaggerate irrelevancies such as politics and trivialize Heaven—you live, you die, you go to Heaven. When Phil Rizzuto, the great New York Yankee shortstop died, George Steinbrenner said: Heaven must have needed a shortstop.
As if Heaven:
And, most importantly, AS IF Heaven is easy to find and easier to enter. But no…Heaven is hard to find unless we know the One who knows the way there. And it’s impossible to enter unless the One who KNOWS the WAY grants us entry—and Saint Peter isn’t the One! If we accept and serve Jesus, however, we know the way to Heaven. HE knows the way there because HE IS THE WAY. |
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