Project Description

MOVE, (Missionary Outreach Volunteer Evangelism) is a volunteer-staffed, faith-based missionary training school located near Orange Walk, Belize. MOVE exists to inspire, equip and mobilize missionaries to meet practical needs and give the three angels' messages of hope and warning to all the world in these end times. The mission reports posted here are stories of MOVE missionaries from all around the world, as well as updates from our campus.

Tuesday, September 03, 2013

A Short Illustration

On the bus today, I observe a flamboyant moneybag, spun with the bright woolen yarns of the highlands, hanging from the rear-view mirror. From the mouth of the bag cascades a collage of colorful bills from the strongest international currencies interspersed with the best of the local cash. Five hundred Euros, $1000, 200 bolivianos: such a wistful display of would-be wealth. I am struck by the fact that the greatest argument against the veracity of those monies is their blatant exhibition. Even from afar, before the boldfaced print “This note is not legal tender” becomes visible, everyone knows it’s fake. What fool would believe that that moneybag was for real? I laugh as I picture a thief greedily swiping the bag on his way out. Yet suddenly it strikes me that someone actually exchanged real money for that beautiful sham!
We all know intuitively that real treasures are hidden. So what can we say for the dazzling displays of entertainment, wealth, riches, and power and position that we find sprawled all around us? Why do we fall for it? Does not common sense alone dictate that this tantalizing smorgasbord of pleasure, fame, and fortune that the world proffers us is nothing but a cheap, hollow, rip-off? Yet we give our time, energy and health for it. We exchange our souls for it. Don’t you think its time we started pursuing the true riches?
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