Os ensinamentos de Jesus sobre generosidade e desapego material
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Jesus nos ensinou que a verdadeira riqueza está em investir no Reino de Deus, não nos bens materiais. Obviamente, não estamos sendo literais, é claro que queremos que você tenha suas coisas e conquistas, mas saiba que isso é matéria, é mundando.
A riqueza que realmente engrandece sua alma, é àquela do Reino dos Céus, a riqueza da fé, do Amor de nosso Deus. Então tome cuidado com excessos, consumismo, materialismo… nada disso será bom para você, muito menos agradará a Deus.
Algumas sugestões de leitura sobre o assunto:
1. A parábola do rico insensato
Em Lucas 12:15-21, Jesus alerta contra a ganância, destacando que a vida não consiste na abundância de bens.
Then he said to them, "Watch out and be on your guard against covetousness, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions." And he told them a parable: "The land of a certain rich man produced abundantly. So he thought to himself, ‘What should I do, for I do not have anywhere to store my crops?’ Then he said, ‘This is what I will do: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my produce and my goods. And I will say to my soul, "Soul, yoʋ have many goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, and be merry." ’ But God said to him, ‘Yoʋ fool! This very night yoʋr life will be demanded back from yoʋ, and the things yoʋ have prepared, whose will they be?’ This is how it will be with anyone who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God."
2. "Mais bem-aventurado é dar que receber"
Atos 20:35 reforça que a generosidade é um ato de fé e obediência.
In all things I have shown you that we must labor in this way and help those who are weak, remembering what the Lord Jesus himself said: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’ "
3. O jovem rico como exemplo de desapego
Marcos 10:21,22 nos ensina que seguir a Cristo exige abrir mão do apego material.
As Jesus looked at him, he felt love for the man and said to him, "One thing yoʋ lack: Go and sell all that yoʋ have and give to the poor, and yoʋ will have treasure in heaven. Then take up yoʋr cross and come follow me." But the man was dejected by what Jesus said and went away sorrowful, for he had many possessions.
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