#9
James 1:9-11
¶ But the brother of humble circumstances is to glory in his high position; and the rich man is to glory in his humiliation, because like flowering grass he will pass away.
For the sun rises with a scorching wind and withers the grass; and its flower falls off and the beauty of its appearance is destroyed; so too the rich man in the midst of his pursuits will fade away.
{{ This is talking of believers in Christ Jesus, “the brother” The man of humble circumstances, the rich man:
Are not really any different, the sun rises and falls on both.
The man who lives in humble circumstances, is considered to live in a high position,
Living humbly, in the Lord being grateful for what the Lord has provided for you,
without the burden created by wealth.
( i once was rich, in all reality i had more money than a normal working man who lives in the will of GOD could ever spend, at that time in my life i didn’t know who i could trust, i didn’t care who i might hurt and my greatest desire was to gather more of everything. Was probably the most unhappy person i knew at that time.
Once i had excepted the Lord confessed my sins and repented of them, surrendering my life to Him and allowed His Holy Spirit to teach me, making Him my first love and my first desire became to fallow and obey His commandments, to become a faithful servant of the Lord rather than to stay a slave to the world and its ways. )
The humble man who is a believer in and a follower of the Lord Christ Jesus is in a higher position because His faith, hope and existences are in the Lord and not the world and its ways. Knowing that Christ Jesus is not only His provider buy ultimately his provision, and with Christ as his provision he has no other need and can live his life serving God, working the land or a job and sharing the Lord with others.
The rich man can not live is such a manner without great struggle. But than all things are posable in the Lord, if the rich man can turn from the world and toward Christ Jesus it is posable.
Another thang that is inevitable:
the sun will rise with a scorching wind and withers the grass; and its flower falls off and the beauty of its appearance will be destroyed; so too is the rich man in the midst of his pursuits it will all will fade away.
One thing the humble and the rich man have in their path of their lives is their end of life on earth.
And their lives after death. Which will either be with Christ or not. For a rich man to choose to put Christ first can be a most difficult thing he will ever do. In all things are posable.
Money is a great temptation for a lot of people and that temptation can quickly turn in to the love of it.
James 1:13-16
Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God”; for God cannot be tempted by evil, and He Himself does not tempt anyone.
But each one is tempted when he is carried away and enticed by his own lust.
Then when lust has conceived, it gives bi
rth to sin; and when sin is accomplished, it brings forth death. Do not be deceived, my beloved brethren. }}