Today's cherished Nugget from guest blogger Pastor Bill.

A little girl had been told many times by a childless old couple that if she would come and live with them, they would get her everything she wanted—a pony and cart, a piano, and the like. One day when the couple had been particularly urgent, her father said, “Don’t you think you had better go with them?” The little girl looked at him in alarm and cried, “Why, Daddy, don’t you want me?” “Yes,” he replied, “but I can’t give you very much, and they will give you everything nice.” “But I wouldn’t have you!” she said as she snuggled up to him.

This brings to mind the words of the song George Beverly Shea sang so well for many years with the Billy Graham Crusade Team,

“I’d rather have Jesus than anything this world affords today.”

The world has nothing to offer that is not more than overshadowed by the presence of God. Remember what Matthew 16:26 tells us,

“For what is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world and lose his on soul?”

Value your relationships with God, your family, and with your friends.

May God bless and keep you today.