What REALLY Matters

            Whether rich or poor, Jesus would ask you only one question:  Can you live your life without doing harm to either yourself or to others?  God doesn’t care what car you drive.  God doesn’t care about the value of your home.  In fact, God doesn’t care if you are homeless or own five homes or even more.  God doesn’t care if you are so poor you don’t pay any taxes or you have offshore holding accounts for your tax shelters.  God simply doesn’t care about the financial status of anyone.  He cares whether you can live with or without as long as you do no harm to others.  This IS the bottom line for life and living.

            Now, doing harm simply means whether one has to murder to keep wealth or murder in order to achieve wealth.  Then on the flip side, God doesn’t want us to commit suicide if we are poor or commit suicide if we are wealthy.  So, we can’t murder to achieve or keep wealth and we can’t commit suicide if we can’t live with either what we have or don’t have.  Murder and suicide are never options for life and living.  Otherwise, we can be as wealthy as we wish or live in as much poverty as we desire.  Once we realize that EVERYONE is equal in the eyes of God regardless of financial status in life, we realize that together we are ALL in the same boat in life.  But the problem is that whether rich or poor, people just don’t think this way.  The poor will say they are entitled to murder the “man,” and the rich feel they have to murder to keep what they have.  As long as most people believe they have a right to murder, there won’t be Peace in the world.  This means there won’t be Peace in the world until the Messiah comes and in my thinking that won’t be soon enough.  Peace.  Brother Ralphie for The Angels of Life Institute