We spend our life trying to stay out of poverty, to have enough stuff to survive. When we see someone without physical provision, we feel bad, because we don’t want to see anyone without.
But what about Poverty of the Spirit?
Poverty is more than being without physical stuff, it exists whenever necessity or desirable ingredients are absent.
A far greater challenge is poverty of the spirit, when you lack peace, love, acceptance, clarity, direction and spiritual healing.
There are many impoverished people who are happy, having worked in the third world for nearly a decade I can assure you of that. But there is no spiritually impoverished people who are satisfied and truly happy.
What should we make our first priority?
David Curry
