Are The One Percenters More Blessed?

            In a word, God doesn’t love the one percent any more than He loves the 99 percent.  God doesn’t care about one’s economic status in life.  If one has to murder in order to protect what he or she has, then in fact, it’s better not to have it.  God doesn’t care about what we either own or don’t own.  No one is more important in the eyes of God because he or she is richer or poorer than others.  Blessings don’t come in wealth, contrary to popular belief about wealth.  Having things is NOT being blessed.  I would say that one is blessed if one lives without pain.  Or one is blessed by having children.  Or those blessings come from a stroll in the woods or taking in the breathtaking beauty of God’s creation.  But people who count wealth as blessings from God are missing the point about what it means to be blessed.

            People who have educations are NOT any more blessed than those who don’t have educations.  The meaning of blessedness is found in general happiness and not in either status or wealth.  The meek are blessed because those who are meek generally will not have a reason to take a human life, but by the same token, it is the meek that are bullied by those who aren’t so meek.  So, when the meek are blessed because they will inherit the earth, Jesus is saying that they won’t have to take land from others by force, but that they will inherit the land.  They are inheritors and not like those who take by force.  Now, if you think about what Jesus is saying, the wealthy in His day took land by force if indeed they wanted the land from someone.  But those who inherit won’t have to take by force that which is theirs by right of birth.  In looking at all the Beatitudes and Jesus’ definition of those who are blessed, there is nothing mentioned about wealth.  Peacemakers are blessed.  Those who mourn are blessed.  The persecuted are blessed.  The poor in spirit are blessed because they like the meek will NOT murder to get what they want.  Jesus says that those who hunger and thirst for righteousness are blessed.  They are like the Peacemakers.  The merciful are blessed.  In other words, blessings have nothing to do with wealth.

            Those who feel they are blessed by wealth aren’t any more blessed than those who are poor.  And that is the point that Jesus is making in the Beatitudes.  God doesn’t love the one percent more than the other 99% for one simple reason:  No one is more blessed over another with wealth, status, or education.  If you think about the reasons why anyone would take the life of another, the reason is usually about money.  It’s about territory.  It’s about space.  It can even be about time.  Jesus knew that the REAL righteous people of this world are blessed because they had no reason to take the life of another.  THIS IS WHAT JESUS IS SAYING!  If you have a reason to take the life of any other, you aren’t blessed, but cursed.  Peace.  Brother Ralphie for The Angels of Life Institute