close
| 04 December 2009
Christmas came early this year for two brothers. Zsolt and Geza Peladi were pleased to learn (though Zsolt looks like it would take a lot to make him smile!) that they’d be able to move out of the cave they’d been living in outside Budapest. Their estranged grandmother had passed away, and they will now inherit her massive fortune, making them instant billionaires. Geza told the press that he hoped he’d be able to find himself a girlfriend now…
From living destitute, surviving off the junk they could scavenge, the two men now face an entirely new future. I was struck by the happy timing of their Christmas cheer – for it was at Christmas that our Lord gave up his riches for our sake. ‘For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich.’ (2 Corinthians 8:9). Born in a stable (or was it even worse?), buried in a cave, so that we might be able to stop raking through the muck in our lives and instead enjoy an unexpected and undeserved eternity with God.
Who would have thought it was possible to catch a glimpse of the true meaning of Christmas through a story about money?!