COLUMNIST L. M. Boyd described the amazing good fortune of a man named Jack Wurm…
In 1949, broke and out of a job, he was walking along a San Francisco beach when he came across a bottle with a piece of paper in it. The note inside was the last will and testament of Daisy Singer Alexander, heir to the Singer sewing machine fortune. The note read, “To avoid confusion, I leave my entire estate to the lucky person who finds this bottle and to my attorney, Barry Cohen, share and share alike.” According to Boyd, the courts accepted the theory that the heiress had written the note twelve years earlier and had thrown the bottle in the Thames River in London. From there it had drifted across the oceans to the feet of the penniless and jobless Jack Wurm. His chance discovery netted him over six million dollars in cash and Singer stock. M.R.D.II
THOUGHT: Jack Wurm’s inheritance cannot compare with the one belonging to those of us “in Christ” (Galatians 3:27). Wurm has since then passed away and his money obviously has no value to him now. Faithful Christians who die in the Lord will one day enjoy eternal life, eternal happiness, eternal gratitude, eternal peace, and eternal profit.
KneEmail: “To an inheritance incorruptible and undefiiled and that does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you.” 1 Peter 1:4
Bible reading for 10.21.09: 1 Timothy 1; Isaiah 62-64
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