I went to school in Raleigh County West Virginia, attended church with miners, and have lived my adult life close by the hard-working men and women who dig black-gold from the ground. Everyday a trainload or more of coal rolls by my house. My prayers are with the families who have suffered such a great loss in the recent mine explosion.
Why do people go deep into the bowels of the earth in search of coal? The bottom-line is the bottom-line--it is valuable. In many ways our whole economy is based on the black rock. It produces electricity, steel, and other commodities. Entire regions are almost completely dependent on the mineral.
When something is valuable people are willing to work, and enter into situations of risk to obtain it.
Solomon speaks of the quest for wisdom, "If you seek her as silver And search for her as for hidden treasures; Then you will discern the fear of the Lord And discover the knowledge of God." (Proverbs 2:4-5, NASB95)
Great investment of resources--even the payment of the ultimate price--is put forth to obtain a mineral to be burned in the furnace. In comparison how casually so many of us are in our seeking for treasure that will withstand the fire of time and eternity.
It's STTA.
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