If I Were a Rich Man

So we have the 1%.  The .1%.  The 99%.  I read an article that mentioned that where you fit depends on how wide you consider it.  Most Americans, including those occupying things, are among the richest in the world.  We clamor for more, either more money, more opportunity, more something.  Rarely are we looking for more places to give our own money or more ways that we can serve others with no benefit to our selves.  Who're we figthing for anyway?    Here's some interesting thoughts on the pursuit and posession of riches.  At the end is a facinating link on some research about riches.

Proverbs 28:6  Better is the poor who walks in his integrity Than he who is crooked though he be rich.

Jeremiah 9:23-24  Thus says the LORD, "Let not a wise man boast of his wisdom, and let not the mighty man boast of his might, let not a rich man boast of his riches;  (24)  but let him who boasts boast of this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD who exercises lovingkindness, justice and righteousness on earth; for I delight in these things," declares the LORD.

Matthew 19:23-24  And Jesus said to His disciples, "Truly I say to you, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.  (24)  "Again I say to you, 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."

1 Timothy 6:6-10  But godliness actually is a means of great gain when accompanied by contentment.  (7)  For we have brought nothing into the world, so we cannot take anything out of it either.  (8)  If we have food and covering, with these we shall be content.  (9)  But those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful desires which plunge men into ruin and destruction.  (10)  For the love of money is a root of all sorts of evil, and some by longing for it have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.

http://vitals.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/27/10512938-rich-people-more-likely-to-cheat-behave-badly-research-finds

Read the article and think about the facinating implications suggested by it.  What are you fighting and striving and working and hoping for?  Does it involve riche$?