Looking through natural eyes men have always branded as “rich” the people with the most money and high cost material resources while at the same time believing those to be “poor” who currently have little money and low cost possessions. We many times think of multi-millionaires and billionaires as the haves and seek to be like them because we want to experience having the most just like they do. In addition, we tend to think they must automatically be acceptable in God’s eyes and pleasing to him because they would not have otherwise amassed worldly riches and the culture of fine clothes, good speech, and engaging public character that seems to be connected to it.
On the other hand, we sometimes believe the middle class, mom’s living on welfare, and low-income families are the have-nots who might not be acceptable to God because they have not displayed the vision, plan, actions, and networks to amass worldly riches and many times seem to barely get by. We avoid many of them because they lack a desire for finery, have slang-ridden speech, and their character is not trying to engage us in a next big endeavor. At the very least, let’s be honest about the fact that we tend to show greater respect for and cater to people who appear rich based on what we can see in the natural. They are our ideal of self-made, successful people who have it all and if we can only bump heads with them at some point we can have the same kind of wonderful life and spiritual worth.
Well, stop looking with your natural eyes and begin to see with your spiritual eyes. Jesus said the abundance of life does not consist of the things that one possesses (including money) and that it profits a man nothing to gain the world then lose his soul. While God may bless you and reward you on earth or allow you to be blessed, your worth is not based on how much money or fine things you have accumulated.
Your worth is solely and wholly based on having a relationship with Jesus Christ in accordance with the bible. This is the only relationship that saves you from the wages of sin, which is eternal damnation. It ensures that you are the most (in Christ) and now the Holy Spirit leads you in a way that seeks to help you have the most according to God’s plan for the rest of your life and the ways in which He wants you to help and be of service to many other people in your community and beyond. Being in Christ ensures that you truly have the Most of what really matters.
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Psalm 36:7-9, Luke 12:13-21, John 10:1-10, James 2:1-10, Revelations 2:8-11
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