From Rags to Riches!

David Lundberg said he found Max Melitzer pushing a shopping cart this past Saturday in Salt Lake City. What makes this newsworthy (many of us push shopping carts at least weekly if not more often!) is that the shopping cart Max was pushing was full of all his worldly possessions, AND he was nowhere near a store. You can probably guess at this point, Max Melitzer is homeless. Has been for a number of years. And all he was doing on Saturday was doing what he did every day ... just moving his "house" around town.

Thanks to the efforts of Lundberg, Melitzer will be able to say goodbye to his cart. Lunderberg is a private investigator who was hired by a New York City law firm to find Max. Max's brother had died and left a "significant" amount of money to his brother. When asked by news reporters how much money Max would be receiving, Lundberg declined to give an amount. But he did indicate it was more than enough to restore Melitzer to a comfortable lifestyle. How did Max receive the news? According to Lunderberg, "He's in shock."

All of us who follow Jesus Christ are somewhat like Melitzer. We are wandering around this world as strangers on this earth. We are in all reality, "homeless!" (Hebrews 11:13-16)  Yet all of us will one day inherit great wealth -- riches far more satisfying than what our world can offer us now (Matthew 6:19-21; 1 Peter 1:3-4). Yet this world has its attractions ... and we pursue it's offerings, in spite of God's warnings against doing so (1 John 2:15-17).  All of us could stand to reflect on the following words of Jim Elliot, a missionary who died for his faith in Christ at the hands of the people he was trying to reach.

"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose."

Thanks for stopping by . . .

pj