Feeling Poor?

March 8, 2010 by Burlw
Filed under: Encouragement, Random Thoughts 

Do you ever feel poor? I do sometimes. I see a neighbor with a bigger house, newer truck, better gadget, and it is easy to wish I too had those things. Sometimes we have to stop and look at how richly God has blessed us! That is now quite easy to do!

This site made me feel quite rich! By American standards, I am not a rich person. My house is a 1,144 square foot farm house built in the 1930′s. I don’t have a garage, and my truck is 10 years old with about 125,000 miles on it. There is the really cool thing! I have a truck!! It runs!!! The heat and air even work! My house has heat and air!!! It is dry inside! I have a bed!!! Running water, even hot water to take a shower with! According to http://www.globalrichlist.com/ I am in the top 8% which makes me one of the richest people in the world!!!  Check it out! If you have been feeling poor, check this site out, and it will make you feel quite rich! If you don’t have time, here are some quick facts:

$10,000 annual income = top 13%

$20,000 annual income = top 11%

$30,000 annual income = top 7%

$40,000 annual income = top 3%

$50,000 annual income = top 1%

So if you make over $25,000 a year…you can now proudly proclaim that you are uber stinkin rich!!! Because you are in the very elite top 10% of the richest people in the world! Enjoy it! Before those of you making less than $25,000 start pointing fingers, if you make over $1,841 a year, you are in the top 20% which is still pretty awesomely wealthy! Thank the Lord today for how richly he has blessed you!

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3 Comments on Feeling Poor?

  1. Christina on Mon, 8th Mar 2010 11:37 am

    2. Hey there,
    I dare you to try to survive in the US on $1841 a year. The average person will spend $200 pr month for basic groceries, which means that your figure of $1841 is close to $600 shy of that. Of being able to pay for groceries *only*, nothing else. Only groceries. You’d be dead if you only made that and didn’t have some sort of connections that would be willing to help you out. This is the most unfeeling statement I’ve ever heard you make. I doubt you were trying to sound this uncaring, but that you probably didn’t think out every part of your statement.
    Obviously, $1841 is an awesome amount if you live in Tchad, Ghana or some other third world country, but in an industrialized country, there’s no feasible way to survive on that amount.
    Check out Proverbs 31:8-9:
    8 “Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves,
    for the rights of all who are destitute.

    9 Speak up and judge fairly;
    defend the rights of the poor and needy.”

  2. Burlw on Mon, 8th Mar 2010 1:51 pm

    3. Christina,

    I appreciate your comments, The point is though that we are all rich! Even the poorest here in the USA are rich by world standards. The blog was really in response to people complaining that they are too poor to tithe here in SC, USA. I haven’t met a person here that cooks their one meal a day of rice over an open fire made of gathered sticks. No one I know here walks miles to get water from a river because there is no running water in their town. While I am sure there are people out there in SC, I don’t personally know anyone who lives without electricity and running water that isn’t mentally ill and thus making the choice to live that way rather than be institutionalized. Malachi 3:10 is the one thing in the Bible that God dares us to test HIM on. “Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the LORD Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it.” I have consciously tried to “outgive God” at times…I can’t do it! The more we give to HIM, the more HE blesses us. This isn’t a get rich quick scheme. But I will say that I have never had to miss a meal because I gave too much money to a missionary or homeless person or church and then God let me starve at the end of the month. That has never happened. Even if it does, I will still know that God is blessing me through it. God blesses me every day! That is the point of my blog post.

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