Featured Story: The Auction
The upstate NY man was rich in almost every way. His estate was
worth millions. He owned houses, land, antiques and cattle. But though on the
outside he had it all, he was very unhappy on the inside. His wife was growing
old, and the couple was childless. He had always wanted a little boy to carry
on the family legacy.
Miraculously, his wife became pregnant in her later years, and she
gave birth to a little boy. The boy was severely handicapped, but the man loved
him with his whole heart. When the boy was five, his mom died. The dad drew
closer to his special son. At age 13, the boy’s birth defects cost him his life
and the father died soon after from a broken heart.
The estate was auctioned before hundreds of bidders. The first
item offered was a painting of the the boy. No one bid. They waited like
vultures for the riches. Finally, the poor housemaid, who helped raise the boy,
offered $5 for the picture and easily took the bid. To every-one’s shock, the
auctioneer ripped a hand written will from the back of the picture. This is
what it said: “To the person who thinks enough of my son to buy this painting,
to this person I give my entire estate.”
The auction was over. The greedy crowd walked away in shock and
dismay.
How many of us have sought after what we thought were true riches
only to find out later that our Father was prepared to give us His entire
estate if we had only sought after His Son alone?
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