Have you ever watched someone walk across a tightrope? If you’re anything like me, you sit and think to yourself about their insanity. I question how ludicrous they must be to rely on one little thing for their entire life. What has the rope done for their life so significant that gives it any credibility or trustworthiness to hold the weight of everything a person has? As I ponder this scenario, I can’t help but be reminded of the weight we often give a green sheet of paper. Like the tightrope walker and the tightrope, some of us lay our lives down to a minuscule paper with a number on it. The tightrope walker looks preposterous in our own eyes, but I feel if we zoom out, we may see that we are giving something just as fleeting the power to control our lives as well. As badly as you want to tell the tightrope walker to get down from the rope and retreat to safety, God desires to tell you that the green piece of paper is not worth your life. His desire is for His arms to be your home. It’s not money that will make you rich, but the endless joy that comes from serving the living God.

The riches of His love can be found through the Gospel: Jesus living a perfect life and dying a brutal death, so those sinners who call on Him as Lord and Savior can spend eternity with Him. This is the ultimate gift: the billion-dollar jackpot in monetary comparison. The difference is physical money doesn’t satisfy. It may not fail you throughout an entire lifetime, but Jesus is all that can please your soul forever. Whoever accepts the gift Jesus has given us, so undeservingly, will be rich forever.

To those who have accepted the Lord and feel worn, weary, and poor, I challenge you to be present, to be thankful, to sprint through the doors God opens for you, and to humbly turn away from the doors He closes, with His truths engraved in your heart. Preach the Gospel to yourself day after day, and praise Him continually for your salvation. Dive into God’s word, and cling to Him as a child would to their father. Sitting under the waterfall of his love is infinitely more gratifying than anything that can be found in a wallet.

Luke 12:15

¹⁵ Then he said, “Beware! Guard against every kind of greed. Life is not measured by how much you own.”