Mark 10:21
Jesus felt genuine love for this man as he looked at him. "You lack only one thing," he told him. "Go and sell all you have and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me."It’s storied that very early on in his career, John D. Rockefeller was determined to earn a lot of money. At 33, he had already earned his first million dollars. At 43, he controlled the largest company in the world. At 53, he was the world’s sole billionaire. All this, but he would find himself suddenly overcome with the disease Alopecia. Rockefeller would become sickly to the point that the only things he could digest were milk and dry crackers. His doctors even told him that he only had 12 more months to live. Well, Rockefeller realized that money wasn’t everything and he began to give his enormous fortune away to help churches, the poor and the needy. Incredibly, he went on to live an additional 45 years before dying at the ripe old age of 98, enjoying a fruitful and giving life. The wealthiest man of his era learned that true treasures and wealth are stored only in Heaven. What are you doing with your treasures, wealth and gifts? Have you already come to realize that you can't take it with you?
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Perhaps most of us think that giving is benovelent and saintly, but sometimes it is counter productive. If we think of giving only to the poor n do not seek the csuse of poverty we may not be solving the prblem. I will advocate eliminating the prblem itself by teaching the poor how to fish.
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