Rare Vase

Let’s suppose that this speaker here was a vase of flowers. And I’m speaking tonight and I get real excited, I kick the vase it goes falling down on the floor and it smashes into a thousand pieces and I’m real nervous about it. At the end of the meeting I go to our coordinator, brother Johnny Long, and I say Johnny I really broke the vase I’m sorry about that. It was a pretty cheap porcelain vase.

It was an Australian vase. I think it is worth about $15 dollars. Here’s $15 U.S. I know it wasn’t worth much.

Johnny’s mouth drops (throat sound). I say, “Johnny, what’s wrong?” He says, “Mark, you don’t know about that vase? Didn’t anybody tell you before you got preaching?

“No.” “That vase is unique. There’s only one other one like it in the world. It’s in an antique shop in Beijing China.

It’s worth 38 million dollars.” How am I going to feel then?

“38 million dollars? And I kicked the vase and shattered it?” Why is it so valuable? Because it cannot be replaced.

There’s none other like it in the world. When God created you, and the genes and the chromosomes came together to form the unique biological structure of you personality.

God threw away the pattern.