Thoughts for another day

June 13, 2013.

Today's verse: Lk. 12:15. And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.  (KJV)

(Pls. read the above before you read further.  Thanks)

A look at the world today and you quickly understand its money that drives it.  People have the notion that money can buy everything.  They believe there’s nothing so sacrosanct that cannot be bought and therefore they conclude, if you have the money, then you have the power because you can buy everything.  This gives rise to greed; first a little, then more and then a little more and then insatiable greed in which a man is willing to do anything to get that money; you see now the power of money is transferred to a man who can now do anything to get the booty.  Cheating and murder is the consequence and people are willing to do even more, to even destroy families; just for money.

Look how greed has seeped gently but surely into society:  Where I live, it’s essentials like milk, eggs, rice and other food items, needed to subsist, whose prices have risen exponentially without cause; but the authorities, who have got their cuts, give lame excuses saying prices of raw materials have risen; but then how can they rise so fast and so often?  Doctors and hospitals charge huge amounts to rich or poor patients; well being they seem to say, depends on the size of your pocket. That noble profession of medicine has been inked black.  Again where I live, rickshaw drivers, bus transportation companies, etc. are keen to increase their prices; and many of them cheat using nefarious means, e.g. rickshaw drivers tampering their meters to show increased fares; vegetable sellers and others tampering their weighing machines, etc.  Oh, how they cheat…  At the end of the day, what do they achieve?  Nothing.  And in their homes there’s no happiness.  Their children are unruly; parents are at each others’ necks; their homes are as good as non-existent.

It takes me to the Scripture above, ‘a man’s life does not consist in the possession of abundance.’  How true Jesus’ statement is and how far we’re from it.  It’s sad that values have been replaced by greed; absolute and obnoxious greed.  But for us who believe in Christ and who’re abiding by His laws, greed has no effect as we live, in this greed-driven world, in the old fashioned but good, way of God.  In which alone is happiness and eventual victory.