Saintly Sips
with Deacon Ken

Many years ago, I was reading a blog that was talking about priorities. In one of the postings, the author relayed a fictional story to make a point. The story goes like this:

 

“A young man had been working for a large fortune 500 company for a good number of years, and over time, had worked his way up to a management position. After one of their corporate meetings, the Founder & CEO came up to him and said that he had been really impressed by his business skills and asked him if he would like to join him for dinner later that week. The young man was ecstatic! Here is a man who is extremely successful in business, has wealth beyond one’s imagination, and someone to whom he had long looked up to. When the evening of the dinner came, a large black limousine pulled up in front of his home, a chauffeur got out, came around and opened the door for him to get in. When he got in and sat down, the CEO was seated across from him, extended his hand to say “Hello,” and then began a friendly conversation. When they reached the restaurant, the chauffer again got out, came around and opened the door for the two men to get out. They both got out of the limousine and began walking to the front door of the restaurant. As they walked towards the door, the CEO stopped suddenly, bent down, picked up a penny that was on the ground, looked at it, and put it in his pocket. Although the dinner was 5-star, and the conversation was lively, the young man could not get out of his mind, why a man who was so wealthy and successful, would stop to pick up a penny!

 

Finally, as the evening was coming to an end and the limousine neared his home, he worked up enough nerve to ask the CEO “WHY” he picked up the penny as wealthy as he was.     The CEO smiled warmly, pulled out the penny and said to the young man: “I was just wanting to be sure that God was still in control” as he pointed out on the penny: “In God We Trust.”

 

When we look out into the world, and see all that is around us, it is of paramount importance to make sure that we are not placing our trust in things that are man-made, but things that are of God! “THINGS” will pass away, but God is eternal. People change and can turn on us, but God is immutable! People can lie, but God IS Truth itself!      Each day, be sure that it is “In God We Trust!”

 

God Bless you all,

Deacon Ken