Why do the wicked live in luxury?

* Luís Alberto Alves

Since my conversion in 1996, something always makes me think deeply: why do the wicked live in luxury? They walk in new cars, wear expensive clothes, have homes in gated communities or grandiose apartments in elite neighborhoods, travel constantly to point-of-line cities, and of course, cash-flow owners?

On the other side I met brothers in Christ who needed to work bent to keep food on the table, bought clothes only at the time of the 13th salary and the word luxury passed away from their lives. Precisely in these observations came to mind the Word written in the Gospel of John: "I have come that they may have life and life in abundance."

In the course of the journey I met other brothers and sisters in Christ filled with the anointing, but always in fierce struggles. At bedtime I asked Jesus Christ why we the Lord's servants go through so much war and sometimes walk on the razor's edge.

The answer took many years. Over 18 years. One day he heard a shepherd preaching about the passage of Malachi, chapter 3, verse 11, which read: "Behold, the day will come that the Lord, the everlasting God, will make a difference between those who serve the Lord and those who They do not serve, between the just and the unjust. "

* Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor