Jesus said abundant life cannot be measured by what you own and that it profits you nothing to gain the world but lose your soul. Therefore, your first priority should be to assure salvation unto eternal life by faithfully confessing that Jesus Christ is your Savior and LORD. Secondly, you should seek to become a good steward because you now recognize that God owns everything (including every piece of income and asset you have or will ever get) and has entrusted a portion of His endless estate to you.
Only then will you recognize and highly regard the bible and its instructions that help you, in a righteous manner, earn, utilize, and multiply money. Your vision will change so you no longer consider people with lots of money to be rich and those with little money to be poor. Nor will you think those who are poor are righteous while those who are rich are automatically unrighteous because they must have done something underhanded to get that much.
You’ll no longer think a person is acceptable to God only when he becomes a high wage earner or someone of worldly importance with enormous material income and/or assets. Nor will you think a person currently living on welfare is a have-not who cannot be acceptable to God because he has not amassed worldly riches and at times may appear to barely get by. You will cease to ridicule people because they are not keeping up with the Joneses in appearance and style. In fact, you’ll start to respect and treat them as well as you treat people who have lots of money because you are now seeing with godly eyesight. Rich and poor alike will be seen as made in God’s image and thus worthy of acceptance and fellowship as well as evangelism and discipleship as necessary.
Your re-birth in Christ will help you see your own potential and the potential in everyone else and lead you to encourage rich and poor alike to become good stewards of their lives, current income, and assets in order to multiply them so each of you can provide for your household in a god-pleasing manner and increasingly and abundantly fund gospel ministry through the Church as well as your own special calling when God identifies it. This faith-filled state of mind and action is the only lifestyle that truly provides everything each one needs as well as many good things desired and will be the only life plan that truly fulfills you.
Please pray for this ministry and email me with any questions. May the LORD bless you richly as you follow His plan!
Psalm 36:7-9, Luke 12:13-21, John 10:1-10, James 2:1-8, Revelations 2:8-11, 3:15-17
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