Give Me Only My Daily Bread (Part 2)

Proverbs 30:7-9
Give me neither poverty nor riches, but give me only my daily bread.
Otherwise I may have too much and disown you and say, “Who is the Lord?”
Or I may become poor and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God.

Wealth blinds the eyes of the rich and poverty the eyes of the poor.

It is human nature to desire things that we do not own or cannot afford to own. Therefore, some of the many solutions to getting whatever we want are to steal or cheat to get them. We are known to kill and to go to great lengths to get rich and stay rich.
“No money, no talk” has become a phrase widely used in the world past, present and future. Judas Iscariot betrayed Jesus over 30 silver coins.

I have suffered the consequences of people who rob others off their riches. I have seen with my very own eyes of how people of the same family will betray one another for the love of money. Hate it!

Robin Hood steals from the rich to help the poor in the name of righteousness. This is false teaching. Stealing is still a sin no matter for what cause you are doing it for. The reason robbery exists because poverty exists. Hunger for the love of money drives people to steal and kill.

Jesus Christ told his disciples, “Seek first God’s kingdom and God’s righteousness and all these things will be given to you as well.” (Matthew 6:33)

There is nothing wrong in being poor. God does not look down on the poor. Only men look down on the poor. Men shun the poor. Men hate the poor and men are always coming up with plans on how to draw money from the poor. The world’s standard is this: If you have no money, you are poor, if you are poor, you are a failure.

But God’s standard is different. Being poor in riches of the world is not God’s concern, God is more concern about your spiritual poverty. A man who has a strong relationship with God and has little money is much richer than a man who earns 5million dollars a year. Keep this in mind: God does not care whether you are rich or poor. He cares about your relationship with Him and how you serve Him with all you have.

Jesus saw the rich putting their gifts into the temple’s treasury as offerings. Jesus also saw a poor widow putting in only two miserable copper coins. He then told the disciples, “I tell you the truth, this poor widow has put in more than all the others. All these people gave their gifts out of their wealth; but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on.” (Matthew 21:3-4)

What matters to God is what you do with the little that God gave you.

I am not implying that Christians are supposed to be poor. Definitely not! I only want to stress that Christians are supposed to seek first God’s kingdom and His righteousness. Let that be your passion.

1 Samuel 2:7
The Lord sends poverty and wealth;
He humbles and he exalts.

There Must To Be More To Life Than This.
-Zlwin Chew