Wednesday Night at the Esquire!
Storage Wars
What is so addicting to the series called Storage Wars? I found the series purely by accident one night while flipping channels. I couldn’t wait to tell my wife, Rhonda, what I had discovered. Couldn’t really explain the show to her – but I got her to watch a couple of episodes with me. I don’t know if Rhonda liked it as well as I did – but at least she acted interested.
The show is about people (and their weird personalities), who show up at unclaimed storage lockers. After the lock is snipped with bolt cutters, everyone has five minutes to take a peek inside, without entering the locker. Then, they start the bidding based on their limited information. Sometimes they really get into arguments. It’s a real ‘turf war.’
The camera follows the winning bidder to dig into the merchandise.
It’s fascinating to discover what is in all of the chests, vaults, boxes, and bins. Sometimes they find things worth thousands and thousands of dollars. You wonder why all of that value is tucked away in an unclaimed storage locker. If something needs an expert’s opinion on an item, it’s taken to someone to get an accurate value. Only the expert really knows the value of these precious items.
Since the moment I saw the first episode, I’ve wanted to do a series on Storage Wars. Because the Bible says that – in all of us – there is hidden treasure. You just can’t determine what’s really inside of a person with a quick glimpse. Just like the bidders on Storage Wars, people may argue about your value, but only the Expert – our Heavenly Father – really knows your value. God made you in a special way – for a special reason. One of the first ways to discover the treasure inside is to simply believe what God has written in the Bible.
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Mike Pitts, Esquire Pastor