What Exactly Is In That Casket, Anyway?
A wealthy husband made his wife promise to place all his money in his casket when he died. The woman reluctantly agreed and, sure enough, the fateful day arrived. At his graveside ceremony, a friend of the grieving widow asked,”You didn’t really put all of his money in that casket, did you”?
“Oh yes”, she replied. “I promised.”
Awestruck, her friend asked, “Well, how did you get it all in there.”?
The widow smiled and said, “I wrote him a check.”
According to the London Daily Mail, Beijing now has more billionaires than New York. In fact, Beijing minted 32 new billionaires last year alone, and China now has 5 of the top 10 billionaire cities in the world.
Rupert Hoogewerf, the founder of the Huron report said, “at the super-wealth creation level, the Chinese are now leading. People will look at China the same way that people looked at Stanford or Silicon Valley in the 1990s.”
20 cities with the most billionaires:
1. Beijing
2. New York
3. Moscow
4. Hong Kong
5. Shanghai
5. London
7. Shenzhen
7. Mumbai
9. Hangzhou
10. Paris
11. Taipei
11. San Francisco
11. Istanbul
14. Singapore
14. Seoul
15. Tokyo
17. Sao Paolo
17. Bangkok
19. Los Angeles
20. New Delhi
Solomon wrote: “Riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward the heaven”.
Jesus said: “A man’s life consists not in the abundance of the things which he possesses”.
We look at the outward, don’t we? The successful, the famous, the wealthy. But God looks deeper. Paul wrote: “He has chosen us in him before the foundation of the world that we should be holy and without blame before him in love”.
Is God impressed with our achievements (He created the universe in 6 days) or our standing in the community, or our wealth (He owns the cattle on a thousand hills)?
Jesus said:
