A legend tells the story of a fisherman called Aaron. Aaron lived on the banks of a river. Walking home with his eyes half-closed one evening after a hard day’s work, he was dreaming of what he could do if he were rich. As he walked his foot struck against a leather pouch filled with what seemed to him to be small stones.

Absentmindedly he picked up the pouch and began throwing the pebbles into the water. When I am a rich man,’ he said to himself, ‘I’ll have a large house.’ And he threw another pebble into the river. He threw another one and thought, ‘My wife and I will have servants and rich food, and many fine things.’

And this went on until just one stone was left. As Aaron held it in his hand, a ray of light caught it and made it sparkle. He then realized that it was a valuable gem. He had been throwing away the real riches in his hand, while he dreamed of unreal riches in the future.

God’s word tells us about the riches of His grace i.e. everything that we have in Christ through redemption from the power of sin. We must be very careful not to judge the goodness of good based on money.

Our true riches are the things that money cannot buy which God has freely lavished on us like good health, peace of mind, joy etc. Anyone who has all these things is truly rich because many don’t have them.

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