Do you ever go in those jewelry stores in the malls and just look?

This is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Lee-Demaz for Thursday, August 13th.

According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the most valuable jewel ever sold at auction was a hundred

carrot pear-shaped, flawless diamond that was sold for over 16.5 million dollars.

I can't even imagine how large that is. There's another company in Switzerland that has the most expensive watch in the world.

It has three heart-shaped diamonds set in a bracelet that is encrusted with many, many little

white and yellow diamonds.

The total weight of those little doodads is 163 carrots.

So when you add that with the big heart-shaped diamonds, you have this

watch that is made up of over 200 carrots of diamonds. The watch is worth more than $25 million.

Some people apparently would be willing to pay to have such a valuable piece. I don't think I want to be

walking down the street with that watch on.

You need a lot of insurance.

But we have to acknowledge that those things are rare and valuable.

They're precious.

Nancy's intention today isn't to make you start coveting $25 million watches.

No, instead, she wants to hold up the sparkling beauty of something far more valuable.

Here's Nancy, continuing in the series, The Way of Wisdom.

As we think about this subject of wisdom, the book of Proverbs talks about how wisdom has a relative

value to jewels.

And we read about that in Proverbs chapter 8, for example, where the scripture says,

wisdom is better than jewels.

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