Everyone Wants Riches

I just realized that among my friends, most of them, say 90% are pretty well-to-do. Most of them have parents who run businesses, even if some of them hold to what they call "really really small business". I shall take that as extreme modesty, since what their parents earn in one month is more than what my Dad can earn in a year.

And we were somehow talking about our family tree. And I realized, if one is a rich kid, it's because at some point in the family tree, someone worked really hard (or was really talented/capable). It could be your grandfather, it could be your dad, it could be your great-great-great grandfather whom you don't even know. They have passed down their riches to you. And these friends of mine have the luxury to choose their jobs which if they fail, they can always return to their family business.

I guess if anyone in my family is going to be rich, it is my generation that has to work really hard. And then maybe our kids, and their kids, can wake up in a private house, and have the luxury to sit in a car to school, and the finances to tour the world.

But is that really what I want?

I guess sometimes I envy these people secretly but at the end of the day, we must realize riches cannot stay with us forever. Our culture is such that people strive for money. Take even my current temporary job for example. For goodness sake, we are not yet actually 'working' but many of my friends are already looking for jobs that pay very highly. It is no surprise that normally the first question they ask is "How much is your salary?"

At the end of the day, can you take what rots, and what can be destroyed to heaven? Or do we put our trust in the Eternal, the Unchanging, the Immutable, the Ancient of Days, the Rock, who is the same, yesterday, today and forever, who does not change like shifting shadows?

Consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus.