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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