“But Jesus said to them again, “Children, how hard it is for those who trust in riches to enter the kingdom of God! It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”
Excerpt, Gospel Reading, Monday 3rd March 2025 – MARK 10:17-27.
So, we are already acquainted with this street talk – “Money talks, bullshit walks.”
The above is an idiom that means money has a strong influence on people’s actions and decisions, while empty words have no impact.
My dear friend, the issue about money is the same all over the world. This cuts across the developed, developing and the underdeveloped countries of the world.
A student who frontally challenges their lecturer, hauls insults at him and even dares to slap him may do so, trusting in the extricating powers of their parent’s riches.
A man of means, trusting in their wealth, if they want to take someone else’s wife, it will be a piece of cake, safe for when the woman is not materialistic. Just like King Herod took Herodias his brother Philip’s wife.
A rich person with so many properties as well as undeveloped lands will still muscle out a pauper’s only piece of land on which he and his family depend on for their livelihood.
In the Bible, Jezebel the wife of King Ahab manipulated and seized the vineyard belonging to Naboth. And such things are still happening.
Vile people who are in possession of wealth do a lot of terrible things with their money.
The situations that calls for the most attention and are quite disturbing are from those who were hitherto indigent and eventually came into riches. It is appalling how abysmally they tend to treat others whom they were in the trenches together.
Now, to those of us so guilty, we do all of these because we trust that when we throw some money around, it can get us out of any situation.
We believe that what money cannot do, more will do it.
Therefore, when we get bored, we go about inflicting such pains on fellow humans just for game. After all, we and our children can always get out of any mess, since money talks, bullshit walks.
Those of us with such notoriety, we tend to even feel we can equally use our money to bulldoze our way into heaven when our time is up.
We all must pay very close attention as Christ Jesus in today’s teaching says, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for those of us so guilty to make heaven.
Dear friend, we shouldn’t do the mistake of thinking such about only the likes Aliko Dangote, Bill Gates, Ted Turner, Elon Musk, etc of this world. Even we, in our little way, that little change we have may have started getting into our head and making us do things. We must check it.
Folks, have a fantastic day, a fulfilled week and a matching forward month of March 2025.
#Blessed_Carlo_Acutis! #Pray_for_us!
– Akase F. Agabo
3rd March 2025.