Remember back in the Garden of Eden after Adam and Eve ate the fruit and God cursed the land? "...Cursed is the ground for your sake; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life. Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you,..." ( Genesis 3:17-19)
Since then, mankind has been living by the sweat of his brow. Life has not been easy and for many, it is full of poverty. However, when Jesus was taken before the religious and political authorities and they placed those thorns upon his head...no wait. "Placed upon his head" is not descriptive enough. When they shoved the thorns down deep into his flesh, hammering them in place, Jesus bled.
The symbol of poverty, the thorns, were placed upon his head and he shed his blood for the redemption of our poverty.His blood covered our shame, our sin and our poverty. Jesus came to set us free and to give us life more abundantly. He died so that we may be prosperous, in many ways.
The devil wants us to stay poor and impoverished. He wants us to believe that as Christians, we should be poor. This is what traditional religion has taught us. This, however, goes against God and what He wants for us.
We can't give what we don't have.....
( To learn more, please read "Free at Last" By Larry Huch )
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