I just read about an Israeli woman who threw out a mattress with 1 million stuffed inside! That set off a frantic search through tons of garbage at three dump sites. As of yet it has not been found.
The woman said she bought her elderly mother a new mattress as a surprise and threw out the old one. She later discovered that her mother had hidden her life savings inside the mattress. So now, somewhere in a dump there is a lumpy old mattress stuffed with cash. I’m sure the daughter meant well, thinking mom would be more comfortable on a new mattress, but I gotta tell ya—sleeping on a lumpy old mattress stuffed with a million bucks sounds pretty comfortable to me!
I suppose you could make a lot of applications with this story, but this is what comes to my mind–Sometimes the younger generation discounts and discards things of great value from the older generation simply because something new seems more desireable. In some cases this is no big deal. However, in other instances it is a very costly mistake.
It seems now days just about everyone wants everything new. Personally, I get sick and tired of hearing things like,”This ain’t your grandma’s church”,etc. Newer isn’t better just because it’s newer. In most cases today it is worse. The craze for something new, something different, change for the sake of change has a way of getting us into trouble.
I’m not interested in newer unless it’s better. Call me old-fashion if you want, but until someone comes up with something better than “Amazing Grace”, ” Rock of Ages”, etc. I’l keep singing the old hymns. If you dislike songs like that it’s an indictment against you, not the hymns.My list of things could go on and on–I simply want to warn you of the danger involved in exchanging the new for the old. You better figure out what is of the greatest value before you toss it aside. Think about it!
