Poor, Chosen to be Rich (Poem)

Of all world populations, across all ages, 

It’s true, according to world history’s pages:

‘The poor you have with you always’ …the majority.^*

The wealthy have been and remain …a minority,

Pray tell, should Christ, in selecting His ‘kingdom recruits’,

Turn to those so enraptured by their wealthy pursuits,

Those pridefully rooted in their wealth-making prowess, 

Or to those who, to faith, may have a unique proneness?  

The poor, weak in things material,

Receptive to hope, spiritual.

Poor in spirit, thus very receptive.

To faith-building Word, very retentive. 

The poor, to become rich in faith toward God …selected.

The poor, by the powerful and wealthy …dejected.

If applying faith and patience, no longer poor!

So then, onto the poor, Grace they’re able to pour.

Poor men, made rich, who retain their Godly fervor,

Will, in satan’s kingdom, crack open great fissures!

Consider the Godly wealthy whom God once used,

Then of the notion -- God wants you poor, be disabused! 

     --Abraham to be the Father of all faithful believers
     --Centurion Cornelius, first of Gentile receivers
     --To burry Jesus, rich Joseph of Arimathea
     --A rich eunuch to bring Good News to Ethiopia

     --Joseph to save all Israel in a famine
     --David to gather riches from nations foreign
     --Solomon to use Dad’s riches to build God’s Temple
     --A rich, young ruler to demonstrate lessons tearful

     --Noah stepped up to the task to build an ark of log
     --A Roman centurion had built a synagogue
     --High Priest, Caiaphas, who advised,

          ‘One man should die for all!’
     --He was totally clueless that his advice was God’s call!

Reflect to recall Godly rich men in your lifetime,

People whose wealth did not drag them into devils’ slime.

Of course, blessing men with great wealth can be

quite a risk.

For many, their fall from Godliness has been quite brisk!

Here’re some things on which there is a consensus:

--Rich people who reject God are not blameless. 

--Wealth tempts us all to become more money-conscious than God-conscious. 

But how bad things are when the poor majority

…become Godless!

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* Jesus, in Matthew 26:11