What is you most precious possession?
Pastor Rittenhouse and his family were on vacation when they saw a suitcase fly off the top of a car going in the opposite direction. They stopped to pick it up, but the driver of the other car never stopped. The only clue to the driver’s identity was a twenty dollar gold piece inscribed: “Given to Otis Sampson at his retirement by Portland Cement Company.”
After extensive correspondence, Otis Sampson was located and contacted. He wrote a letter telling them to discard the suitcase and all its contents, and send only the gold piece. Mr. Sampson use the phrase “my most precious possession” several times to describe the gold piece.
Pastor Rittenhouse sent the gold piece, and wrote a cover letter telling Otis Sampson about his most precious possession, Jesus Christ.
A year later, the pastor received a Christmas package. In it was the twenty dollar gold piece. Mr. Sampson wrote: “You will be happy to know we have become active members of a church. We want you to have this gold piece. I am seventy-four; my wife is seventy-two. You were the first one to tell us about Jesus. Now He is our most precious possession.”