the ring : stories of UJ

A story is told of a wise king who had an even wiser advisor, not to be outdone by the wisdom of the advisor, the king came up with a plan to humiliate the advisor, it had to be a brilliant unheard of trick, one that the wise advisor couldn’t  get out of and it had to be public, after days and nights of thinking the king called the advisor into his chamber and asked this of him “ my most senior advisor, you know that you are my favorite  in all the kingdom, I am going to give you this task so that I can establish you as the greatest advisor that ever lived, are you up for the challenge” the advisor smiled thinking that his moment to shine had finally come “ but there is a catch” said the king  “ if you fail at this task you will be stripped of your position and it will be given to another, not only that but you will have to publicly admit that I am wiser than you”

“What is the task” asked the advisor
“I want you to find an object that makes happy people sad and sad people happy” answered the king
The advisor sunk even lower to the ground as he bowed

He left the kings chamber and wondered the streets of the kingdom for 40 days and 40 nights and still had nothing, how could such an object exist, if it did it would by far be the most powerful of weapon to mankind, it would spar sad soldiers to greater victory and visa versa, it could humble the proud and exalt the humble, as though in a fairytale or the stories of old the advisor had a dream about a powerful ring with an even powerful inscription! 

The very next day the advisor had the ring made, it was of pure gold, the most beautiful and precious in the land, he went to the kings chamber and found the king smiling happy even, for today the king would humiliate the advisor, the king motioned for the advisor to approach his throne, with one swift move the advisor took the ring out of his pocket and it lit-up the room up! The king’s servants were amazed and blinded by the shine but not the king for he had lived long enough to see greater wealth and prestige, he laughed at the advisor and said “do u think wealth makes people happy and sad, well maybe you are right cause am happy and I have all these wealth but that ring of yours does not affect me, it neither makes me happy or sad” with humility the advisor replied “my king read the inscription” the king did! 

The king’s face changed, where there was a smile was now a frown, laughter replaced with dead silence even a hint of tears  In scripted on the ring where this words “this too shall pass” 

Whatever you are going through right now will pass, bad times will end, good times will also end, everything changes summer goes away so winter can come, winter goes away so summer can return, this is the story of life.
Yet there is one constant, he is the one you can hope for in times of trouble, he is the one you rejoice with in times of great joy, he is the uncreated one, he is the one that never changes HIS NAME IS JESUS!  Great year ahead at UJ kingdom continues.........