Monday, February 1, 2021
Acquiring riches
Please read this; GOSPELS IN BRIEF.... Leo Tolstoy (became a beleiver
Yahsua (Jesus) says that whosoever wants to receive true life should first renounce his own personal desires.
Such a person should not only refrain from arranging his life according to his own desires so as not to damage the true life of fulfilling the father's will, but he must also be ready at any moment to edure all kinds of deprivations and suffering. There are no benefits to be obtained from mortal life if the obtaining of it damages the life of the spirit.
More then anything else, the life of the spirit is damaged by the acquiring of riches.
People forget that no matter how many riches and belongings they acquire, they should die at any moment and having things become superfluos.
Death is an unavoidable condition of life, it hangs over each of us – sickness, murder at the hands of others, and accidents may cut a life short at any second.
If a person is living, then he should look at every hour of his life as a reprieve.
We are capable of knowing and practicing all that happens on earth and in heaven, but we forget that death awaits us at any second. If we keep forgetting that, then we will keep from devoting ourselves to mortal life.
Like the guests who cannot attend the rich man's feast because they are too busy with occupational and family matters, people become distracted by the concerns of mortal life, and deprive themselves of true life.
Whoever does not renounce all the cares and fears of mortal life cannot fulfill the father's will since it is impossible to serve yourself partially and the father partially.
One must consider, is there any benefit to serving my own flesh, can I arrange my life the way I want it?
People should remember that mortal life is wealth that belongs to someone else and that they manage it only temporarily. If they wisely use this other person's wealth, then they will receive their own true wealth. If we do not give up our false property, then the true property will never belong to us.
The rich man is already guilty because he eats his fill and does so extavagantly while poor people are going hungry at his doors.
Possessions which are not shared with others are nothing but the unfulfilled will of the father.
You can see by what Christ said is true for the majority of republicans in my opinion but I can't judge but to rebuke.
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