"I Wish I Could Go Back Home"
A Story on Myself
In three miles distance from a shop, I saw a car with a license plate number of "8888," and then other cars with the numbers "7777," "4444," and "3333," respectively; however I also later encountered other cars with the plate numbers "3333" and "7777" respectively, though with a different additional ID component each.
Indeed, Saturday and Sunday drivers are many in a city area in Japan.
I bought a pair of new shows at about 4,000 yen (33 dollars). In the shop, there were of course other shoes priced at 20,000 yen or 3,000 yen. Indeed, it was a discount shop where a new model of NEC computer with a 20-inch display was on sale at about 220,000 yen (1,790 dollars).
A rich man would buy 400,000 yen (3,300 dollars) shoes; some ordinary men would rather buy 40,000 yen (330 dollars) shoes; but I honestly bought 4,000 yen shoes as usual.
(You will not envy a man who wears a pair of shoes costing 33,000 dollars, since there must be a criminal relationship or an abnormal psychology in his motivation to spend that much for his shoes, since the issue is just shoes.)
In Japan traditionally they say, "See his shoes if you want to judge how much money he has."
However, do you think that Jesus Christ, if in Japan He was, would buy shoes costing more than 33 dollars at most? He may even say to rich or ordinary people to go to a pile of garbage to find shoes for them to wear, if they really want to follow Him, after selling out all their belongings eranings of which should be given to the poor. You had better buy 33 dollar shoes in case.
In your church or Vatican, if you find anybody wearing shoes costing more than 33 dollars while he or she is teaching something on Jesus Christ; you have to think that somebody that should not be in the position is really taking it against the teaching of Jesus Christ who would, if in Japan He was, surely would wear shoes costing only 33 dollars or less.
It is your foot or feet that have value. Even a pair of shoes costing 3,300 dollars cannot increase the value of your feet.
I suppose that if a disciple of Jesus had a foot worth 480,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 dollars (as one dollar per cell in his foot, though even not as one dollar per atom in his foot), a shoe costing 330 dollars, 3,300 dollars, or 33,000 dollars never match it. Arrogance shining on a shoe costing 33,000 dollars, 3,300 dollars, or 330 dollars must make you fall from his grace. Indeed, you had better buy 33 dollar shoes in case.
And, that is why I sometimes like to ask a person wearing a costly pair of shoes how much value the God has given to his feet (your body is more valuable than your clothes).
I really wish I could indicate it to him. Or, I hope that the God would prove him how much value He has given to his feet, or a cell or an atom of his feet.
With or without this notion, I honestly bought a pair of new shows at about 4,000 yen (33 dollars). In the shop, there were of course other shoes priced at about 20,000 yen or 3,000 yen. Indeed, it was a discount shop where a new model of NEC computer with a 20-inch display was on sale at about 220,000 yen (1,790 dollars).
And, in three miles distance from the shop, I saw a car with a license plate number of "8888," and then other cars with the numbers "7777," "4444," and "3333," respectively; however I also later encountered other cars with the plate number "3333" and "7777" respectively, though with a different additional ID component each.
Indeed, Saturday and Sunday drivers are many in a city area in Japan.
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This is a story on myself, who is not enough qualified to serve Jesus Christ for untying His sandals or cleaning His boots, related to "3333." For other numbers, I may later present related stories.
(For your reference, I have of course been on board a Boeing 777, though mostly in domestic air trips from/to Haneda Airport, against your guessing.
Finally, take "33" sometimes but not "3333" in case.)
"...Happy are those who stay awake and guard their clothes, so that they do not have to walk around naked and get shamed..."