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Recently a 6-year-old asked me if I was poor. That simple question has played on my mind ever since. This
not something we think about, talk about or even consider on a daily basis. We
go through our lives wanting and needing things, but never consider if we are
too poor to have them, because they are just ‘things’. We
have the clothes we need, the food we need and life’s necessities, but does
this make us rich, for they are only ‘things’. If
we look around us to see what others have or don’t have, are we poor compared
to them? Again, we look at their things, what they own, what they have, but do
things make us rich or poor? Jesus
was poor by today’s standard; actually He would have been considered a
vagrant! He didn’t have money or things, He never even had a home or a bed to
call His own. Most nights He slept on the ground with only the stars as His
covers. Was Jesus poor? No.
He had His Father’s love. His father supplied all His needs through the people
whose paths He crossed. Do
you depend on your Father for all of your needs? If so, are you poor? If we
depend on Our Father for His love and support are we poor? Or are we just
following in Christ’s footsteps and we are in rich in God’s love and
blessings? The
more I reflect on this small, innocent child’s question, the more I realize I
am really rich, very rich! Maybe not in what I possess, but in who and what I
am. I am God’s child and have more riches than I will ever need. Are
you poor? 2004@quihikat
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