How do we determine wether someone is wealthy or poor. We can look at their bank statement, and whoever has more money is the richer man. But James teaches us that we should look at wealth a different way. In James 1:9-12, we learn that wealth does not determine God's love for us. That whether we have money or are bankrupt, God's love for us doesn't change.
Jame's thought process was also very similar to that of King Solomon. That even if we have all the wealth in the world (which Solomon pretty much had) that we can't do anything with it when we die. This is why we make wills, because when we pass on no matter how much stuff we had, we can't take it with us. Therefore our focus should not be on things of this world, but rather on Heaven. Colossians 3:2 When we are Heaven minded, then our focus is on right things.
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