Jack Ma, Chinese entrepreneur: If you put bananas and money in front of monkeys, monkeys will choose bananas because monkeys do not know that money can buy a lot of bananas. In reality, if you offer job and business to people, they would choose job because most people do not know that business can bring more money than wages. Profit is better than wages, for wages can make you a living but profits can bring you a fortune.

I’m taking quite more than enough quote up here just to make sure we have sufficient context to check. But, what he had said rang a bell in me. Spiritually speaking, of course.
Monkeys, unlike us, don’t know the worth of money. They naturally, automatically, will choose bananas over money. How about us, humans? Do we think we have enough perspective to make the right choice? No, we don’t. In cases dealing with things more than “bananas and money,” we, earthborne-humans, don't know which to choose.
So, how do we know which?
Let's get back to Jack.
If only monkeys knew what we know, saw what we see, thought the way we think, they would choose money more than bananas. This is the main idea.
Now, how about us? More than monkeys’ perspective, there is ours, humans’. More than our earthly perspective, what’s there? Yap! The Creator, God.
Let's put the main idea here:
If only humans knew what God knows, see what God sees, thought the way God thinks, we would then choose more than bananas…
we would choose more than mere wealth, beauty, fame, power, intelligence…
we would choose what God has in His mind to offer us…
we would choose Him.
And Himself is the all-best-ever He could offer. Nothing less than that, and certainly nothing is more than that.
Would you take that? Would you take what He has to offer?
For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life (John 3:16, World English Bible).
Well, at the very least of our discussion here, you know how to choose which to choose in a simply logical way, the monkey and bananas way, the higher perspective way.
Be blessed, be blessing.
(Paksi EP, Sda, 27 Des 2024)
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