The Poor in God's Kingdom

Jesus said the poor will always be with us. My early thinking on this statement was, we will always need the poor to practice being His followers. More recently I think Jesus could have been referring to the fact that there would always be greed and oppression, therefore always the poor.  You would think that oppression and greed would not come from those who go to church, or have some sort of spiritual life. The truth is we are all on this journey and there is oppression and greed in our ranks, something we should at least pray about.

When Jesus said things like follow me, or sell everything you own and give it to the poor, He did not mean to sell all and be poor. What He may have meant is when you follow me your stuff is every body's stuff, Redistribution of the wealth. If you read the first few chapters of acts, you will see them considering nothing of their own, but holding all things in common, so that there were no needs among them.

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