Million Dollar Yachts
So,
you believe wealth is a
blessing.
Before spending it on a $50,000 yacht or a million dollar yacht, let alone
on a megayacht like
Paul Allen's Octopus (right) that costs several hundred
million dollars, consider this:
for two dollars, one Bible can reach a country where they are banned, and every Bible that
reaches such a place results on average in two new Christians (
source).
For the price of a $50,000 yacht, 25,000 Bibles can reach such a place and
50,000 people can be saved. For the price of a quarter million dollar yacht,
125,000 Bibles can reach such a place and 250,000 people can be saved.
And as shown below, if money had been spent on Bibles
instead of on ten of the largest water toys in the world, everyone in the
world who still needs a Bible would have received one and a majority of the
world population saved.
| YACHT |
LENGTH |
PRICE |
|
BIBLES |
PEOPLE SAVED |
| Gigayacht |
728 feet |
$1 billion |
|
500 million |
1 billion |
| Azzam |
591 feet |
$630 million |
|
315 million |
630 million |
| Eclipse |
533 feet |
$485 million |
|
243 million |
485 million |
| Dubai |
531 feet |
$400 million |
|
200 million |
400 million |
| Rising Sun |
453 feet |
$300 million |
|
150 million |
300 million |
| Octopus |
414 feet |
$250 million |
|
100 million |
200 million |
| Luna |
377 feet |
$300 million |
|
150 million |
300 million |
| Pelorus |
377 feet |
$300 million |
|
150 million |
300 million |
| Radiant |
361 feet |
$286 million |
|
143 million |
286 million |
| Dilbar II |
360 feet |
$263 million |
|
132 million |
263 million |
| Total |
|
|
|
2.1 billion |
4.2 billion |
By definition, yachts are pleasure boats. Do
you really think that the source of your blessing - God - wants you to spend money - His money - on an
expensive
floating toy so that you can lounge around in the middle of the ocean while
billions of
people who need to know about God are without Bibles?
If you truly can't do without a yacht,
why not pick a small one and invest the rest of God's
money that He entrusted to you for eternity? Remember Jesus' command:
"Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where
moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for
yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and
where thieves do not break in and steal." (Matthew 6:19-20)
Jesus also warned:
"And that servant who knew his master’s will, and did
not prepare himself or do according to his will, shall be beaten with many
stripes. But he who did not know, yet committed things deserving of stripes,
shall be beaten with few. For everyone to whom much is given, from him much
will be required; and to whom much has been committed, of him they will ask
the more." (Luke 12:47-48)
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