We live in a time of fear!
Fear of
terrorism, fear of crime, fear of unemployment, fear of illness, fear of loneliness,
fear of aging, fear of exploitation, fear for our children, fear… The list
continues and includes every unique fear of each human being alive today.
In the
world of the wealthy fear is almost always connected to earthy possessions. We fear our things will be stolen, our privileged
way of life taken away.
Fear we will become ill and not be able to earn more. Fear as we age of death when our things are finally beyond our reach.
Fear that if we share it will be at the expense of our children’s
wealth.
We fear being wrong so we
believe our way of life is right.
In the
rest of the world people fear that the wealthy will consume all the world has
without sharing, fear that the culture of the wealthy will consume the world
and destroy theirs.
Fear that
if they do not agree with the wealthy they will be destroyed. Fear that they cannot participate in the
things of the wealthy.
Fear that their children will starve, die in war, slavery, or sweat shops without ever participating in the world of wealth.
The
wealthy are held in a spirit of bondage that is not of God, not of Christ, not Christian!
We are held prisoners
by our things they bind our desires, attitudes, actions and disadvantage the
rest of the world.
The wealthy live
in a constant state of bondage, bondage that Christ cautions us about in Matthew 19:24 “it is
hard for a rich human to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is
easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich human to
enter the kingdom of God” because we desire things rather then God’s unconditional love.
Faith in God's unconditional love given to all through Christ demands that Christians share unconditionally and extend God's love to all.
God gives equally to all humanity and in this God offers us a
spirit of adoption, inclusion in heaven for eternity.
In this
all humanity can live free in the knowledge we will all live for
eternity as equals with equal opportunity in Heaven.
We can
live without fear.
Grandma Snyder
©2013-2017
twosnydergirls
Lectionary: Isaiah 44:6-8; Psalm 86:11-17; Romans 8:12-25;
Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43.
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