Wednesday, October 15, 2008

The Cost of "Going"

Today I read the following interesting note.  A Hong Kong jeweler named Lam Sai-Wing built a bathroom in which almost everything is made of 24 karat gold: the toilet, the floor tiles, the mirror frames - even the chandelier. The only thing that's not all-gold is the ceiling, which is studded with 6,200 diamonds, pearls, rubies, sapphires, and emeralds. Cost to build: $3.5 million.  The high cost of "going"!  I'd be afraid to have visitors use it for fear that they might chip out and pocket one of those precious jewels.  Now we just recently remodeled two of our bathrooms, but we skipped the gold, diamonds, pearls, rubies, sapphires, and emeralds.  We did use plaster, wood, vinyl, chrome, corian, cast-iron, plastic, paint, and ceramic tile.   Cost to build:  Much less than Sai-Wing's.  And guess what, Sai-Wing's and our's both serve the same purpose.  And, we are very happy and satisfied with ours.  And, we don't need to worry about insuring or protecting our bathrooms or replacing golden fixtures when they wear out.  I am reminded of the admonition in scripture to not lay up for ourselves treasures on earth where moth or rust can corrupt them or thieves can break in and steal them.  But we are to lay up our treasures in heaven.  One day we will walk on streets of gold - a greater reality and hope than a bathroom of gold.  But it does make me wonder, do you think we'll have bathrooms of gold in heaven?  

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