Both poverty and riches present the greatest trials and troubles in a believer’s life. Those who are poor are faced with challenges of lack and inability to afford certain things that they want and might be tempted to use all their time in pursuit of money. On the other hand, those who are rich might spend most of their time trying to protect what they have and accumulate more, while they might lose all their riches in one day, and get humbled. As the poor might be exalted and the rich might be humbled, each person should rejoice in his relationship with the Lord regardless of whether they are poor or rich.
While your financial status, amount of resources you own, the size of the organization you lead, your position in society might change from better to worse at any time, it is your relationship with the Lord that matters most. Riches and possessions may wither like grass that is here today and disappear tomorrow. Don’t put your trust in material things, but put your trust in your relationship with the Lord. Both present or absent of resources and material things present trials or temptations in a believer’s life.
See what the scriptures say in
James 1:9-11 ESV (9) “Let the lowly brother boast in his exaltation,
(10) and the rich in his humiliation, because like a flower of the grass he will pass away. (11) For the sun rises with its scorching heat and withers the grass; its flower falls, and its beauty perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in the midst of his pursuits.”
Don’t put your trust in material things. From Simtandile Dlepuma. Stay blessed