For many years, this has been a huge debate within Christians. Some think as a Christian, you’re entitled to all God’s blessing and you should be rich. And some also thinks you should be rugged in the lord and therefore taking your eyes off money and remain the way you are.
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- How does your financial status affect your spiritual status?
Which do you think is better? to be poor or rich?
Deuteronomy 15:4
Save when there shall be no poor among you; for the Lord shall greatly bless thee in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it:
According to this scripture, God promised the people of Israel freedom from poverty if the people followed God’s laws.
But in the book of Luke, Christ taught of being poor and blessed.
Luke 6:20
And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, Blessed be ye poor: for yours is the kingdom of God.
And also in 1 Timothy 6:8–10, Apostle Paul addressed this issue perfectly. Having food and raiment let’s stay contented. Because those that insist in getting rich fall into diverse temptations and a trap and into many harmful desires that plunge people to ruin their life at the end of everything. He also made us to know that the love of money is a root of all series of evil. Some people, eager for money too much, therefore have wandered from the faith and finding their life pierced with many griefs. But on my opinion, I would say that having money is not in anyway wrong, but loving money is. and we should take note of this-
The abundance of money or the lack of money is less important than our spiritual condition.
can riches be a stumbling block in our spiritual life?
Mark 10:17–22Which shows the account of the rich young ruler, this should show us a little of how riches can be a spiritual stumbling block. When Jesus met this man, he asked him to sell all his possessions and give to the poor, and follow him. The man was wrath and walked away because he was a man of much wealth.
The wealth of this young man was a barrier to him in this case , the wealth was a negative experience to him since it kept him from following Christ. He valued his money more than the love he had for Jesus.
In conclusion, humans sees someone that’s wealthy as a blessing or someone who God loves and the poor as a cursed creature. God’s has greater plan for making this things jut the way they are, and uses both the wealthy people and the poor ones to accomplish His will. Let’s not get involved in the temptation of thinking/seeing wealth as God’s only blessing and instead be content in any and every circumstance we find our self. As a Christian, we should know that God blessings are not define by riches or how successful you may be in this world. But are determined in their fullness in a kingdom not of this world.
I believe this has brought a clear explanation to you all in the steemchurch.
