Amen 🙌

Why does Jesus say it is

Difficult for anyone with riches to enter God’s Kingdom?

I think the real issue is, to whom do we give the credit for what we have?

It’s easy to think we did it all ourselves!

In Jesus’ time – and sometimes in ours – wealth seems to signify God’s preference, and poverty is often considered a punishment.

If that were true, then only a tiny percentage of the world’s population meets God’s approval!

The majority of people are hardworking, honest people that are not rich.

Is it their fault that they don’t have wealth?

I don’t think so.

If that were the case, why was justice for the poor and the vulnerable a central theme of both the Old Testament and Jesus’ teachings?

No one has chosen the place of the circumstances of his birth.

Those who were born into a wealthy family or who had an opportunity for a good education, good food and health care are no more worthy than those born into a war-torn county or one with few of the options that others take for granted.

In God’s eyes, we are all his beloved children.

We have no right to feel superior to others or to judge others as more or less worthy.

We know that we did not and cannot save ourselves.

Jesus has saved us.

It took Jesus, both divine and human, to pay the price for our sins.

No mere human could have done it; salvation is a pure gift.

Let us thank God for the gift of salvation and allow our actions to show gratitude in how we treat others.