Even though He was wealthy, according to the Bible, Jesus "became poor for your sakes, that you might become rich through His poverty" (2 Corinthians 8:9). As a result of Christ's poverty, faithful Christians will receive a wealth of spiritual rewards. It does not necessarily follow that Christians will enjoy material wealth in this day and age.
Every Christian has a duty to prioritize God's will over all else in their lives, regardless of wealth or poverty in this world.Riches is part of God's blessing and we can only get this things when we work for them in life but sitting down and waiting for God to bring all this things may not be possible.
Every Christian has a duty to prioritize God's will over all else in their lives, regardless of wealth or poverty in this world.Riches is part of God's blessing and we can only get this things when we work for them in life but sitting down and waiting for God to bring all this things may not be possible.
If we worked for our soul and body, we don't know what the work was, or how we did it. So, yes. We can work for some things in life, and get them through work. But the best and most important things were given to us by God... and our parents... even though the parents didn't know the operations of the physics that brought their children into being.
Mark 4: 26-29:
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26He also said, “This is what the kingdom of God is like. A man scatters seed on the ground. 27Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how. 28All by itself the soil produces grain—first the stalk, then the head, then the full kernel in the head. 29As soon as the grain is ripe, he puts the sickle to it, because the harvest has come.”
So we see that we work right along with the things that God set in place. We gain through our work. But the most important things have been made by God. Without God and what He made, there would be no working and gaining on our part.
Note that the unbelievers are using the things of God in the work that they do, just like the Christians are. Unbelievers simply don't understand where their ability to work successfully comes from. However, Christians who focus on the idea of God bringing them wealth, without doing anything for it, are going to remain poor (except by accident or inheritance). Consider Luke 16:8:
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And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.
