I heard a similar topic on the Internet the other day. I used the same title, but the comparisons are different. I am using sports in which I am interested.
If I hold a baseball in my hands, it might be worth $3.00. If I put a baseball in the hands of Joey Votto, who plays for the Cincinnati Reds, it is worth about $21,000,000 a year. It depends on who holds the baseball.
If I hold a football in my hands, it might be worth about $11.00. Now, if this football were placed in the hands of Ben Roethlisberger, the quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers, it would be worth about $87.4 million a year. It depends on in whose hands the football is.
If I hold a hockey puck in my hands, it might be worth $2.00. Now, if I place a hockey puck in the hands of Sidney Crosby, who plays for the Pittsburgh Penguins, it is worth about $8.7 million a year. It depends in whose hands the hockey puck is.
If I hold in my hands a golf club, it is worth about $50. Putting golf clubs in the hands of Tiger Woods resulted in career earnings of $800,000,000. It depends on who holds a golf club.
If I hold five loaves of bread and two fishes in my hands, I might eat the two fishes and a small amount of bread with some left over. With five loaves and two fishes in the hands of Jesus, He fed 5,000 men plus women and children, and there were 12 baskets left over when they were done eating (Matthew 14:13-21; Mark 6:31-44; Luke 9:12-17; John 6:1-14). It depends in whose hands the five loaves and two fishes are.
If I hold a toy slingshot it in my hands; it is just a toy. I might be able to knock a can over a few feet away. When David the shepherd boy held a sling, he slew the Philistine giant Goliath (1 Samuel 17:40-50). It depends in whose hands the slingshot is.
If I hold a stick or a rod in my hand, I might play stickball. When Moses held a rod in his hand, he parted the Red Sea (Exodus 14:16). It depends on who is holding the rod.
If I hold two nails in my hands, I could fasten two boards together. However, Jesus had two nails in His hands as He was nailed to the cross (John 20:25), by which He took all mankind’s sins with Him there (1 Peter 2:24). It depends in whose hands the nails are.
If I hold all my worries, anxieties and sorrows in my hands, all this does is make me sick and stressed. No good comes from me holding these things alone. On the other hand, if I place all my worries, anxieties and sorrows in the hands of my God, He will take care of me. He will make things better and be with me at all times. It depends in whose hands these worries, anxieties and sorrows are. I thought this especially was needed today regarding the coronavirus crisis. So many are worried about this virus, and we need to turn these worries and anything else going wrong in our lives over to the Lord. “Casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you” (1 Peter 5:7 NKJV).
So, the worth of what is held varies depending upon who is holding it. Let us remember, it all depends in whose hand things are.
