Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”
Proverbs 22:7 ESV
The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.
Although these 👆verses seem to contradict each other, both are 100% true and to your point Proverbs 22:7 especially true.
But let us not forget that the heart of man is different for each of us and some can handle having the money while others it might take them straight down the path of the highway to hell. So God might have mercy on a person when He makes them poor for God is who gives you the ability to get riches in the first place.
““And you shall remember the Lord your God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day.”
If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and in lack of daily food, and one of you says to them "Go in peace, be warmed and filled," without giving them the things needed for the body, what does it profit? So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead.
One benefit of the Catholic tradition is we have wealth saints and saints who lived in extreme poverty.
Exactly. Rich, poor, and everything in between. The pursuit of sanctity is independent from your financial status
Great post.
Hebrews 13:5 ESV
Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”
Proverbs 22:7 ESV
The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.
Although these 👆verses seem to contradict each other, both are 100% true and to your point Proverbs 22:7 especially true.
But let us not forget that the heart of man is different for each of us and some can handle having the money while others it might take them straight down the path of the highway to hell. So God might have mercy on a person when He makes them poor for God is who gives you the ability to get riches in the first place.
““And you shall remember the Lord your God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day.”
Deuteronomy 8:18 NKJV
https://bible.com/bible/114/deu.8.18.NKJV
And if He promises to never forsake us, ‘If I have Jesus, I have it all’ as the gospel song here in America sings.
We might not also forget that this verse from the Parable of the Vineyard of the Workers has some insights to it too.
#SovereignGod
“So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few chosen.””
Matthew 20:16 NKJV
https://bible.com/bible/114/mat.20.16.NKJV
James 2 15:17
If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and in lack of daily food, and one of you says to them "Go in peace, be warmed and filled," without giving them the things needed for the body, what does it profit? So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead.
Your Father is a hero, a good man.