Friday! Proverbs!
Wealth
adds many friends,
But a poor man
is separated
from his friend.
Proverbs 19:4 NASB
It's not often that Proverbs brings a tear to the eye. To lose your friend for being (relatively) poor is sad.
How often have I wanted to meet, get to know, become the friend of someone because of their (relative) wealth.
How often I've looked past, not connected with, not given time to someone because they seemed (relatively) poor.
I easily equate external success with value.
But we digress.
Why would the poor person be separated from their friend?
Could it be that they have no choice, they are affected by disaster and have no resources, illness and can't travel, forced to live in a refugee camp, fleeing from those with power, the actions of someone else that the poor person has no resources to fight, have to move away to find work and survive...
Do we just accept that this is the way the world is?
In our little piece of the planet we can make a difference.
#lovepeople
#somethingtochewon
Christ is the visible image of the invisible God. He existed before anything was created and is supreme over all creation, for through him God created everything in the heavenly realms and on earth. He made the things we can see and the things we can't see - such as thrones, kingdoms, rulers, and authorities in the unseen world. Everything was created through him and for him. Colossians 1:15-16 NLT OK so this is an English translation of a letter Paul wrote to a church 2,000 years ago, but does it feel like Paul is wrestling with words and ideas to try and capture all of who Jesus is, of who God is, of how does it work that the walking around Jesus was also there before the beginning of the beginning of everything we can see and touch and know. Not only that but Jesus was somehow the agent of everything that has been made in the physical, social, and spiritual. Jesus is at the centre of it all. Walking around Jesus. Cooking fish for breakfast Jesus. Heart aching as he ...
Comments
Post a Comment