Trophies
of life
God gives to mankind the
freedom to choose, a free will to do whatever they choose to do, to
be whatever they choose to be. So God said to the children on
earth: “You are free to choose whatever trophy of life you would
like to choose. Choose well because whatever you choose it will be
given to you!”.
So the children of earth
choose each their own choice of trophies of life. Some choose to be
famous scholar, some others choose to be captain of industry, some
choose to be famous celebrity, some others choose to be king of
realm. So each one of them picked up the trophies of life of their
choosing and lined up before God to be approved. Each one of them
believed that their trophies were the best ones for them. And God
being a gentle God let the children of earth to have their choice
of trophies of life. So God let them as their choosing and approved
whatever trophies the children picked.
One of the children however
found a hidden trophy unlike the others that were picked by the
other children. This trophy was hidden inside the earth. And the
small boy found it by pure luck because he was not fast enough to
grab the other trophies and hence started to dig around in
desperation in the hope of finding a trophy. Upon unearthing this
trophy an Angel appeared to the small boy and said to him: “This is
no ordinary trophy. This is the most precious one of them all”. The
boy startled to see the angel then asked: “Why is this one so
different?” The angel replied: “Because this is the trophy of
everlasting life and everlasting power. Whoever choose this trophy
and carry it to the end would be given eternal power and eternal
life. “The boy was so excited upon hearing this
and said immediately “I want this one!”. The angel then said ”Are
you sure? This is no ordinary trophy”. The small boy screamed “Yes
of course I want this one” The angel said “Then pick it up”. The
small boy excitedly tried to pick up the trophy that he had just
unearthed. But he failed, the trophy felt heavy, too heavy for him
to pick it up and carry it to God. “Why is it so heavy” The boy
asked. The angel then replied “Because it is no ordinary trophy”.
Being persistent the boy then instead of picking it up tried to
push it with his own small body and it moved little by little. So
the small boy pushed his trophy little by little towards the
line-up to be approved by the almighty God but because the trophy
was heavy he wasn’t able to pick other trophies that he came to see
along the way. The other children upon seeing the burden of this
small boy started to mock him saying: Hey why do you pick that
trophy? It doesn’t look good at all. The trophy is smaller than
ours and it must be very heavy by the way you
push it all the way here, and he’s only able to pick only that one
trophy. Some other children said to the boy: Look at him and his
small trophy. He’s all toiling and bearing pains just to get it
here. Poor guy he must have lost his mind to pick up that trophy.
But still the small boy didn’t pay attention to the other children
remarks and continued to push it until it was his time to see God.
God then said to the small boy: You have picked the best trophy of
all. You are now in pains but will no longer be. The trophy that
you chose is the trophy of life. You now will be given eternal
power and eternal life because that is the trophy of your choosing.
The boy was out of words. He knew his struggle was not in vain. He
has found and chosen the best trophy of them all.
The parable is similar to
one that Jesus spoke about a man who found a hidden treasure.
Matthew 13:44
Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field;
the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof
goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.