rich young ruler...

I was listening to this year's Club 5 tapes while walking towards my bank. I was up to the part where Phillip Jensen was talking about how when we read of the rich young ruler we always think of someone else but we dont realise that we are rich young rulers ourselves. Then he talked about how money is power, and when you have power the world treats you better.

So I went into the bank and I asked the woman at the counter whether I could apply for a credit card, and how much income per year I needed etc. She probably saw me and thought, this young guy cant even afford a razor blade to shave, he probably doesnt have that much annual income to get a credit card.. she wasnt very polite with me, and kept doing the paper work that she was doing while talking to me. When I was filling in the application form, I asked her if I had to fill in the employers address (which i didnt know) she told me to come back when I got the address. But later, after I filled out the form, she looked at it and saw my income and investments and my home address and she was suddenly really nice to me and said I didnt have to worry about employer address because it doesnt really matter.

I feel like such a rich young ruler.. wealth makes it so much harder to give away all you have to the poor.


I hope this sunday our church will give generously to the relief effort for people in South Asia. I knew several people including my parents who were in the affect areas at the time. We have been given so much by God I hope we will be willing to give much back.