The rich and the poor equally struggle to keep the balance and maintain the equilibrium of satisfaction. Any person, on planet earth, if given various options, would choose wealth, and that too in excess. The poor assume about rich and vice versa. Unfortunately, both are wrong in their perception of each other because both are comparing satisfaction based on money and material things. Thus, our thought processes never meet. Usually, all are desperate to make it big and find satisfaction with the money they dream about. I like what actor Jim Carey talks about all who dream to be rich. “I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer.”. Jim was honest enough to experience and state that there isn’t an answer in making big money and reaching the top.
Rich and poor are struggling to find solution and satisfaction out of money. While the poor struggle to make ends meet, the rich struggle with excessive money and that its the end solution to all the challenges faced. The rich soon finds that he has multiple options to replace and quickly changes anything which doesn’t fit his expectations. He assumes he has the power to try all that his heart desires and eyes want. Everything looks for him as a commodity and since he has the purchasing power the rich assumes he will ultimately make it. The poor on the other hand compares himself with the rich and desperately tries to reach there. The daily struggle of life poses several challenges and threats for which he assumes money to be the only answer to all of life’s problem. Rarely one comprehends that it is not the answer. In this process God and parents are blamed, opportunities are missed and feeling of being lost sets in overtime. The common commodity - money is chased but the most important common factor - God is ultimately ignored.
Too often, when answering questions on people’s life problems, we give them something other than their finances, we give them the best budgeting plans we know of. If they are working through relational discord, we teach them communication techniques. If they are struggling with doubt, we challenge them to just believe promising that all will get better if they do. But we fail to give them Jesus.
What do you think rich, and poor have in common? King Solomon in his observation recorded in the book of proverbs in the Bible states, “The rich and the poor meet together; the Lord is the Maker of them all” (Prov. 22:2). The gist of the proverb is both rich and poor live side by side in this life and are part of the order of God’s creation. The sovereign God of the universe providentially superintends all creation, and nothing escapes His eye. “The earth belongs to the Lord and all that is in it”(Bible). We are tenants on this earth, and stewards of all that God has given us. The maker and creator of this universe knows all our challenges and wants His people to depend on Him. Jesus is the answer to all problems. He is not a mythological figure but a living God who lived among mankind and rose from dead. He promises to come back again that those who believe in Him and accept Him will find all answers here and in the eternity to come.
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