11 Apr 2020

What profits a man?

Bukit Damansara, Bukit Bangsar, Bukit Bandaraya, and Bukit Pantai are 4 neighbouring hills, just on the edge of the Kuala Lumpur City Centre, that houses some of the poshest homes and richest families in the Klang Valley but when you drive around at night you see many of the detached houses and bungalows either dark or only one room has light.
Maybe their owners have many big houses elsewhere and they only stay there when they are in Kuala Lumpur. Maybe the old owners have passed away and the children are either trying to sell it to split the money or they are litigating one another to see who owns it. I don't know and I probably will never find out but looking at these lonely empty houses which are worth millions I am reminded of the verse that says "For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?" Matthew 16:26 and "Better is a dry morsel with quietness, Than a house full of feasting with strife," Proverbs 17:1.

What would you give for a happy fulfilling life? Sometimes wealth, power, and achievement are not great as they seemed. What would you rather have? If you can have it, please by all means but if you can only choose one?

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