Rich or Poor!

Proverbs 22:2

The rich and poor meet together: the Lord is the maker of them all.

There's no difference Rich, Poor they meet together. Now think about that for a minute, we live in a proud country. What I mean  by that is the rich spend little or no time with the poor. The rich type of people live with the rich and the poor the same. The rich have nicer houses, cars, clothes, eat different types of food and so on. But you know what when you pull the riches off we are all just people. In Luke 16 we read of a rich man and a poor man they both had the same basic needs. The rich man ate from a table of fine foods he had, had prepared. The poor man eats crumbs from the ground which he begged for while his body was full of sores. To different types of people, one had plenty and one had very little. In this life it may seem important to have riches or live comfortable but as Clarence Sullivan who was a muli millionaire told me one day, God doesn't give many lots of money because they don't know how to handle it, it handles them. How true those words are! Who is most respected at Church? The one who gives much or the one who gives little? God has blessed one that they are able to give much and they do. But if  they do it for any other reason than just to give to the work of God then they missed Gods purpose. Why? Because the Lord is the maker of them both. If we have great riches or we don't  no matter what we do with them the real basic need in our life is all the same, Christ Jesus.

The beggar DIED! The rich man DIED! You and I rich or poor will DIED! And the only thing that will matter is did we except Christ Jesus as our savior.

Luke 16:22

And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; 

23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments,

Riches make no difference in eternity unless our riches were in Christ.

Ephesians 1:7

In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;

That's the only riches that count.