At an auction one night I found myself in a bidding war for a glass bowl that I thought would make an excellent gift for a member of my family. I won the auction at a dearer price than I had intended to pay, but when I got the bowl, I realized that it was not the quality product I had thought that it was. I had paid great value for what was not valuable.
We can be confused about life like that as well. People will strive for a certain kind of life, a particular position in life and later find out it was not nearly as satisfying as they had anticipated. How do we keep from spending our time picking up life's fool's gold?
Paul warns people not be blinded by the things the world says are valuable, but instead to put real value on the God's treasurers. When we are rich in generosity, when we measure our wealth not by what we keep or gain, but by what we can and do give away, then we are able to grasp life that is really life.
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