“Now for the house of my God I have prepared with all my might: gold for things to be made of gold, silver for things of silver,…iron for things of iron, wood for things of wood…” (1 Chron 29:2).
It’s been observed that we in the West are often warmongers about the trivial and pacifists about the terrible. Let’s not make wood things out of gold or vice versa. Don’t major on minors today.