“But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:” (Matt. 6:20)
Success can only be measured relatively, either against others or against ourselves and our past.
The trailer house in the rundown trailer park that is dilapidated the least denotes success, the alcoholic that can still function in the world is a success relative to the one on skid row. The same authoritative forces that compel us to succeed, to reach the top of the ladder, are the same ones that tell us to despise those that have attained that position, to force them to give away all they have worked for to those who have no desire to put forth the effort to succeed.
“For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.” (Matt. 26:11)
With wealth comes power because certain people can be bought, they will do as they are told because of the love of money. Those with wealth have always exerted their power over the poor, and that word poor is relative to them; less than what they have obtained means poorer to them.
These are those that have fallen into the deceitfulness of riches, and that deceitfulness causes pride in the one and envy in the other.
The ones that have been named the “Elites” today have decided that their fellow man is of no greater value than the birds of the air. Those in the highest positions in Satan’s world have set below them those whom they have ordered to cause disorder, to invoke the masses to rebel, to incite them to revolt against what has always been, the rich against the poor.
Not the poor against the rich, for most who would look at their lives as relative to only themselves, as to their position in life today, would not be completely content, but at least satisfied with what they have, while still seeking for more, yet not in a form of competition with others. In other words, get up, go to work, do the best you can and enjoy life as much as you can.
This competition between the “have and have nots” is all manufactured my friends, and it is a trap you must not fall into.
Those who have attained much are those who are instigating these days, for much is not enough, all is what they seek.
“For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” (Mark 8:36)
They are, in this sense, the same as the prodigal son was the moment his father handed him that bag of money, drunk with desires.
Their end, if they do not repent and call upon the Lord Jesus Christ for the salvation of their soul, will be eternal suffering, while the widow who gave all she had walks on streets of gold. The rich man who faired sumptuously is still seeking for a drop of water, whilst Lazarus rejoices in the light of the Lamb.
They want to cause envy to grow within you, and they want that envy to turn into anger, and if not anger, then despair.
The one who has been born-again will go about their business set before him by his Father in heaven, leaving these he meets to their fate if they will not hear the words of truth.
Those who do not serve the Lord will attempt to get you all riled up over the disparity of these days, they will want you to join their ranks against the oppressive regime, they want to hand you a sign and then march in protest with them.
“The LORD forbid that I should stretch forth mine hand against the LORD’S anointed:” (1st Sam. 26:11a)
Do you really believe that any of this is happening against the will of the Living God?
Be very careful of this trap, look within yourself and see, what is it that you are trying to succeed at? Do you desire to take part of the crowns that those of this world wear, or are you working towards those that are eternal?
