Caviar Stinks!
Wednesday, January 10, 2024
“In our esteem, the joys of earth are little better than husks for pigs compared with Jesus, the heavenly manna. We would rather have one mouthful of Christ’s love and a sip of his fellowship than a whole world full of carnal delights… What is life’s merriment compared to our Lord Jesus in His most despised estate?” – C.H. Spurgeon
Many years ago, I was eating lunch at the Chart House restaurant at Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, and they offered a large salad bar that came with your meal. Along with the standard items that you might expect was a small bowl of something I had never seen, let alone tasted… caviar!
Thinking that this might be the last time I could afford to taste something usually reserved for the “rich and famous,” I scooped a small tablespoon onto a cracker and raised it to my mouth… and that’s as far as I got. I was so repulsed by the overwhelming stench of the caviar that I tossed it into the nearest trash can, cracker and all. How gauche!
Maybe some of my readers like (or even love) the taste of caviar, but I am convinced that it is more a case of the “Emperor’s New Clothes” syndrome. Everyone knows it stinks to high heaven but, because it is so trendy, no one is willing to admit it. Instead, they gulp down the raw fish eggs and smile, only to spit them back up in their napkin when no one is watching.
Life has an abundance of things that we can indulge in, depending on the size of our bank account. Deanna and I share a Chevy Equinox, but there are a lot of people in Vero Beach who own multiple cars. One day, they drive their Mercedes Benz, the next day their BMW, and the day after that their Lexus, Land Rover, or Lamborghini.
I honestly don’t begrudge other people their lavish homes or their fancy sports cars. Quite on the contrary because, if they don’t know Jesus as their Savior, they are spiritual paupers. It doesn’t matter how much money they have in the bank or to what exotic location they last traveled on vacation. Simply put, they are spiritually destitute without Jesus.
Meanwhile, I have a mansion in heaven and a safe deposit bank in the First National Bank of Glory. Not because I deserve them, because I don’t, but because Jesus died for my sins... period.
Now, I just hope they don’t serve caviar at the Marriage Supper of the Lamb!
“What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?” Mark 8:37 (BSB)
- Rev. Dale M. Glading, President
(Please read Luke 12:16-21).
