* Luís Alberto Alves
Depending on where you are reading this article, a dollar, pound, yen, ruble, peseta, weight or dinar will have little importance in your life. But when hunger comes and unemployment keeps you company, that derisory amount of money will seem like a fortune in the purchase of a meager piece of bread.
So reflect a lot on the chapter of James. Look at your life and see if it really serves God or is just an impostor disguised as a Christian in the search unbridled for some kind of blessing. You can deceive me, but from the Lord's eyes you will never be able to escape, even if you are in the most distant country on this planet Earth. The Lord knows how to find you. It is better to convert and learn from the wise words of Jesus Christ. This is also proof of wisdom.
The problem is to know how many wish to be wise. The mistake of several people is the attachment to money. They dive headlong into this river thinking that when they die they will bring fortunes to the afterlife. They develop a hallucinatory rhythm of life, abandoning the words of God, thinking only of the fattening of the checking account.
Few stop and think about the lifestyle of Solomon, one of the richest and most powerful men who has ever passed through this world. He himself knows how illusory is the fortune that comes to some. Power is ephemeral as well. It is transitory. It never stays in the same hand for a long time. The same smoke soon disappears.
Several millionaires take their own lives when faced with great ordeal. One of them is the loss of money in the Stock Exchange. Even though they are still wealthy, it is an affront for them to let a few million disappear through the fragile stream of stocks. Within the Christian churches, all is well while the heat of probation has not come. When it melts pride and vanity, few remain in this race and easily let the crown of life fall to the ground.
* Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor
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