Jesus says it is hard for a rich person to enter heaven. At what point does someone become rich? I never think of myself as rich, but wealth is always comparative. How much does one need to live, and what point is someone actually poor or rich? For Canada, where I live, I'm average. Nearly average income, nearly average home, a wife, some kids, a couple vehicles, etc. So, I'm average, right? Not rich or poor, just average and boring.
But, if you go to a site like http://www.globalrichlist.com/, your perspective changes. According to their calculations, I'm in the top 1% of all people on earth. Crazy! So, I must be rich.
When I lived in Paraguay, I knew a family who hadn't had any normal income for a couple of years. Yet, they were some of the happiest people I've know. They always trusted God to provide for them. I'm not like that. My washer is on the fritz and I'm worried about what's going to become of it and how much it's going to cost me. Maybe being rich means you have too many things to worry about in this life, where moth and rust destroy. The difficulty for us rich people is that we don't have to rely on God, and it works against us. Perhaps poverty is more valuable than it seems.
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