Gold Nugget
Verse 2: “The rich and the poor have this in common,
The Lord is the maker of them all.”
Commentary
When we get to heaven, you won't have to worry
about keeping up with the Joneses. We'll all be Joneses. For those of you that
may not be familiar with this old term, this has nothing to do with The Jonas
Brothers. I didn't make a typo. "Keeping up with the Joneses", is a
term to describe our lustful and covetous nature to insist we have
what someone or everyone else has. We weigh our self value too often by how we
perceive the value of others. Many of us have an
outward perspective of someone based on their social status
or financial position. This is limited to us as humans. Animals do not judge
according to this stature and neither does God. So we see that what is beneath
us and Who is above us stands apart from our unique standard for the value of a
person. As today’s "gold nugget" says, "The rich and the poor have this in common,
The Lord is the maker of them all.” No matter what we do to
get self worth or how we measure the self worth of others, at the end
of the day, God sees His creation. He is the only one qualified to place value
on us. When we finish this time here on earth, He will see one of two things in
us; either He will see His creation that rejected their Maker and will inherit
eternal separation from Him or His creation that accepted Him and will inherit
eternal life with Him. That's it. It's really that simple. All our efforts to measure
ourselves by each other is in vain. We will not be put through the Hitler test
on that day. That is to say, we will not be placed next to Hitler to see if we
were bad or not. We also will not be placed next to Billy Graham to see if we
were good enough. We just will not be measured by each other. We will
be measured by whether or not we have given the life we received from
Him back to Him. Yes, all He asked was for us to give to Him what is already
His. He died for us so we could live for Him. It is time that we started seeing
each other as He sees us and not by the world's standards.
Prayer
Lord, thank you Jesus for reminding me of who
you are and who we are. I will purpose to remember this and keep things and
people (including myself) in proper perspective. Amen
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