Eat The Rich

I love the phrase, “The rich get richer and the poor get poorer.” I think I understand the real meaning but am not quite sure others understand that it is not just the division between the classes that liberals love to perpetuate. We all assume that having money is the key to attaining power and the way to keep the money and make more is to be in power. Laws are passed that provide loopholes for those who have amassed wealth. It allows them to shelter it from taxation or reduce the amount they are forced to give back to support programs they would not readily support (unless they are bleeding heart liberals who are entrenched in the class warfare mentality). If rich liberals actually believed that wealth should be spread out, they themselves should distribute all that they have. This would ensure that each person gets their “deserved” share. I don’t see that happening. They have become too entrenched in their lifestyles to make due with anything less. So much for practicing what you preach. It is amazing that anyone still buys into the class warfare thought process when those who are supposedly fighting to eliminate it do so much to maintain it.

The phrase is also very reflective of how those who have found Christ feel as they grow in the faith. It is Christ’s commandment that we should “Love one another as I have loved you.” By doing so you are sharing your wealth and at the same time becoming richer. Christians that understand and actually follow those words of Christ are not chained by the way people look or are dressed. Christ did some amazing things in his short life. He spent time with prostitutes, lepers, the dregs of society and even tax collectors (imagine having to spend time with an IRS auditor). It would be no different than today. As a society, we tend to look at those who, in our opinion have failed to live up to their potential, as if they were less than worthy of our love and attention. That is not what Christ did and that is why his words, “love one another as I have loved you” let us know that all are worthy of love and that God loves all of us, even lawyers.

So as the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, it matters what kind of riches you are seeking. Are you looking for that coveted green back to make you happy or are you looking past your own comfort to those who Christ commanded us to love. Will the new house, car, boat, or other material addition to your life, along with the status it provides, lead you to that level of happiness that you so badly want? Or will devoting your resources to helping those in need be the catalyst that expands your happiness? I am not saying that having money is bad, but its power to warp your priorities from Christ path makes me happy that I am rich and getting richer for the right reasons.

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Cobb