One of the most audacious robberies of a socialite took place this week; Kim Kardashian was robbed at gunpoint early Monday at her luxury apartment in Paris. This was complicated by not only the crime but as the media reported there was the issue of the missing bodyguard, the weirdly calm concierge followed by the hurried journey home after being robbed of millions in stolen jewels.
It was reported that five masked robbers disguised as police officers held a gun to the head of the mother of two who reportedly begged for her life. It is reported that the robbers forced a night concierge at the Hôtel de Pourtalès to bring them to her two-story pad. She was bound with duct tape by her hands and her feet and placed in the bathtub as the robbers stole her rings whilst she begged for her life. They stole her ring a gift from her husband rapper Kanye West, that she’d been showing off on social media.
Simone Harouche, a friend who apparently was sleeping in a downstairs bedroom, heard a commotion and alerted the bodyguard who arrived minutes after the robbers left on bicycles with millions of pounds of jewellery. After giving a statement to police on Monday, Kardashian boarded a private plane and immediately left Paris, back to her home in New York surrounded by a much enhanced myriad of security. On Wednesday, Paris police lay squarely the blame on Kardashian’s social media habits which left her vulnerable and exposed.
It was Martin Luther who said, ‘Wealth is the smallest thing on earth, the least gift that God has bestowed on mankind’. Wealth shouldn’t be our priority or something we boast about. In Matthew 619-21 Jesus said we must ‘lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal’.
This week, spend time thinking on your real treasures, and if they are in heaven, you’ll be confident that they are in the safest place ever!