By David Bragg
On November 12,
2020, a priority mail package arrived at the physics department of the City
College of New York. It was sent anonymously in the heart of a worldwide
pandemic that had most of the faculty working from home. The package sat there,
unopened, until September 2021. That is when Professor Vinod Menon opened it to
find $180,000 in cash inside! The note with the money revealed that the sender
was an appreciative graduate who wanted to give back to his alma mater (CNN).
For about 10
months that box sat there unopened. For 43 weeks no one at the school had any
idea of the valuable contents awaiting inside. It was not until that professor,
after around 300 days did something, i.e., opened the box, that the value of
its contents could be truly appreciated.
The same thing is
true when it comes to God’s commands contained in the New Testament. We can’t
really appreciate their value until we do something, i.e., obey them. Then we
truly appreciate their value. That is what Jesus had in mind when He declared,
“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord’” … (Matthew 7:21).
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