Potential Possessions
“ Then Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, “One thing you lack: Go your way, sell whatever you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, take up the cross, and follow Me .”” Mark 10:21 NKJV High school knowledge of physics teaches the conversion of potential energy into different forms of useful energy; and the possible wastage arising from failure to coordinate focus on a simple conversion process. When the young man met with Jesus in relation of his concern for peace, joy, satisfaction, and the conversion of his riches and earthly achievements to eternal rest in heaven, Jesus revealed the basic principle of the simple conversion process to him and all His disciples: “ One thing you lack: Go your way, sell whatever you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, take up the cross, and follow Me ”. Invariably, everything we have in life (properties, privileges, and opportunities) are potential ...