How Did It Get There?!

The other day I came across a little article that was interesting in a magazine called 'Discover - Science, Technology, and the Future'. Here is the article:

Earth's Inner Fort Knox
More than 99 percent of the Earth's gold is missing--it all sank to the center of the planet billions of years ago. In fact, says geologist Bernard Wood of Macquaire University in Australia, there's enough gold in Earth's core to coat its surface in 1.5 feet of the stuff. How did it get there?
Earth formed from a series of smaller planetesimals that crashed together over the course of 30 million to 40 million years. Wood deduced how much gold ought to be present in Earth's crust by comparing the crust's composition to that of meteorites similar to the planetesimals. He concluded that the crust was depleted of gold, platinum, and nickel and suggests that all these iron-loving elements were pulled into Earth's iron-rich core while its surface was still an ocean of molten magma.
In fact, if meteorites hadn't later deposited gold on Earth's surface millions of years after its core had fully formed and its crust had cooled, gold would be even more rare and expensive than it is today. Wood has calculated that 1.6 quadrillion tons of gold must lie in Earth's core. This may sound like a lot, but it is really only a tiny percentage of the core's overall mass--about one part per million. The core holds six times as much platinum, Wood notes, "but people get less excited about that than gold."
-Anne Wootton-

I think that.. God put most of the Earth's gold in its core because He began to see the humans He created becoming greedy and not giving to Him to store up heavenly treasures. He put it in the core so that humans can't get to it, in hope that we would have faith, and give everything we have to Him, instead of storing earthly treasures that will become nothing when we die or when Christ returns.

But hey, that's just what I think! Thanks to the bible study book we have been reading this summer, I have learned more about giving to the Lord to store heavenly treasures that we will receive when we come face-to-face with God. And that giving in general fills people with amazing joy!
Love always,
-Bree-