What’s in your wallet? I can assure you what is not in my wallet – the American Express Centurion card. First of all you have to be invited. Next you have to pay a $7,500 initiation fee and then pay an annual fee of $2,500. I am now about to reveal my plebeian, working class status by saying, “I don’t understand.” In my uninvited state of mind it seems to me that a credit card is a credit card as long as it has no annual fee and returns to me one to three percent. Now, obviously there must be some benefits of which I am totally unaware and probably unable to understand. This is a case of not knowing what I don’t know.
I Corinthians 2:9 says, “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him.” I have always loved this text. Never in my dreams would I have thought it also applied to American Express. They must offer some wonderful perks.
I can tell you what or who does offer some wonderful perks. Jesus offers us eternal life with unlimited universal travel and we don’t have to keep track of frequent flier miles. If we did it would be frequent flier light-years. How I wish we could help our youth understand what they are being offered. This sinful world has nothing to compare with what waits for God’s children. Satan is out to dupe them. Have you ever noticed the casino commercials? They are filled with beautiful young people laughing, smiling and hugging. The last time I walked through a casino I watched a busload of senior citizens head for the nickel slots. The pretty people must have been in a backroom.
Written by Roger Bothwell on June 30, 2016
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