{"id":650,"date":"2013-09-26T22:31:47","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T14:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/?p=650"},"modified":"2013-09-26T22:31:47","modified_gmt":"2013-09-26T14:31:47","slug":"real-value-of-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/real-value-of-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Real value of things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Few days ago, i read something interesting:<\/p>\n<p>Blackberry would be sold for S$5.9b. Nobody knows, but the news is out. Blackberry era has ended. Nokia has gone. Today is the time for Apple &amp; Google. What was like a boom today, tomorrow may be gone. Such is the electronic and technology industry. But in fact, in all things, that&#8217;s the reality.<\/p>\n<p>The today of pop stars, would be outdated soon. When i grew up, Britney Spears was so popular&#8230;and now, she&#8217;s no longer popular. And if today Psy is so popular or Justin Bieber&#8230;tomorrow, there would be somebody else.<\/p>\n<p>Kingdoms rise, kingdoms falls.<br \/>\nYet we worship man like they&#8217;re gods.<br \/>\nGoverments too, they have expiry dates.<br \/>\nYet we depend so much on them like they&#8217;re gods.<\/p>\n<p>I remember what my pastor said about <strong>Real Value<\/strong>. &#8220;Do you want to know the real value of something? See what people are willing to pay. Of course that&#8217;s not true. There are real precious that people pay so cheap&#8230;&#8230;And there&#8217;re really junks that people pay so much.&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;The real value of things, are not in how much people are willing to pay, but how much God is willing to pay. And God paid with His Sons life for our lives.&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That settles it all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Few days ago, i read something interesting: Blackberry would be sold for S$5.9b. Nobody knows, but the news is out. Blackberry era has ended. Nokia has gone. Today is the time for Apple &amp; Google. 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