Saturday, June 7, 2014

Graduation Day Redux

You approach the south side of the building, using the door which invites you to “Enter Here.”  The lighting is low, but sufficient to reveal only one piece of furniture, a small square metal table. The gray of the table offsets nicely the table’s contents: 10,000 $100 bills. One million dollars.

You stare at the table and the dollar bills and you look for around for someone who will explain.  A voice comes over a loudspeaker. A calm sounding voice, surprisingly similar to the woman’s voice who announces on a GPS device in your car that you need to make a legal U-turn as soon as possible.  The voice says:

“Welcome.  You have been selected to participate in an experiment.  You have two choices. First, you may use proceed to exit through the north door. When you exit you will be 18 years old and in the precise same life situation as you were on your high school graduation day.  When you again reach your current age you can return here and retrieve the million dollars which will be for your own use.  Second, you can collect as many of the $100 bills as you would like and then turn around and exit the south door. When you exit you will be just in the same precise life situation as you were when you entered, except for the fact that you will have up to $1 million dollars, which money must be given away within the next 30 days.”

So, you stand there thinking, do I want to start my life over again from 18 knowing that one day I will have a million dollars? Or, do I want to be who I am right now with the opportunity to give away a million dollars right now?

Which choice to you make? Why?

Why does God rarely offer second chances?  Is it really better to give than to receive?  Is today the day your graduate from the school of life with one chance to start over?


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