I love chocolate, but I wouldn’t pay $700 for a candy bar. But someone did!
Here’s the scoop:

A Christie’s auction in London, Sept. 2001, had a record-breaking sale of a Cadbury’s chocolate bar to an unidentified buyer for a whopping $687.
WOW! Almost $700 for a piece of chocolate?

And it wasn’t one of those giant candy bars that could feed a family of Oompa Loompas for a year. It was only four inches long. Nor was it a gourmet concoction produced from rare cacao beans and put through an oak-barrel aging process as part of an excuse to charge thousands for a tiny taste.

None of that.
It was simply a 100-year-old bar that had survived—unopened—from the first British attempt to reach the South Pole in 1901.

OK, that’s cool . . . but worth almost $700?
I guess it depends on what you choose to value.

Let’s take our advice from Jesus:

“Don’t store up treasures here on earth where they can erode away or may be stolen. Store them in heaven where they will never lose their value and are safe from thieves.”
(Matthew 6:19-20 LB)

There will come a time when the anonymous person who purchased that $687 chocolate bar will realize he can’t hang on to it forever.
It has no eternal value.

I love chocolate as much as the next person, but when it comes to what I
choose to “store up,” I’m going with eternal things:

an intimate relationship with Jesus,
investing in the lives of others,
saturating myself in His Word,
and striving to become all He wants me to be.

These are things that won’t decay.

Make it your focus this new year to wisely invest in eternal matters.

You are loved!
Susie