Psalm 49

Read this first: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+49&version=NIV

People who have wealth but lack understanding
    are like the beasts that perish.

I’m fairly wealthy. I don’t talk about it much but as a grown adult with a decent job, money in the market, a car, a job, and a house. I’m more wealthy than half the world. Half the world lives off less than $5.50 a day. 80% of the world lives on less than $10 a day. You must have internet access to read this and some device that also likely puts you in the wealthy category.

So what do we do with that? Why is it that we have every fact at our fingertips and yet there’s still a large group of people who think the earth is flat? Because we have every fact on our devices we’ve decided they’re as disposable as the phones we replace every couple years and throw them all out for opinion. We have wealth, access, and power, but we lack understanding and wisdom. We’d rather watch people throw food at each other on tv than make food for the poor. How sad is our life?

What do you do with your power and your wealth? What do you do with the information at your finger tips? Do we just sit around and binge netflix and watch cats on roombas? Do we use it to fight strangers on the web? I’ve done all of that. Can you use it to sort through facts to find unknown truths? I’ve done that too, but it takes more work and I do it less often.

Should I use my wealth to help others? Absolutely but how do you use it in such a way that doesn’t encourage people to keep looking for hand outs? That’s the issue. And yet much of my wealth has been a hand out as well. I haven’t really earned it. All I have is gift. All any of us have is gift. I’m reminded of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fC6RP6tZ1Q

I don’t think the homeless were necessarily more generous than the wealthy- I think if you hand anyone free food they will be more generous with giving it to others as they didn’t think they’d have pizza in the first place. If we start with the idea that what we have is already more than enough- then our generosity changes. Let’s keep that in mind. All is gift- all can be given away. All can be given again.

May God bless your day!