June 6, 2008
Filthy Lucre?Posted by Bryan
note: This is an update from an entry posted September 5, 2003
I'm the 48,545,599 richest person on earth! Discover how rich you are! >> |
So I've been movin' on up like the Jeffersons since the last time I looked at this global rich list. I've advanced 9,306,966 places in only four-and-a-half years. So, on an average of 10 million every five years, barring any unforeseen difficulties (factors including, but not limited to being in the ministry, a total lack of interest in becoming "rich," and then just that basic roadblock called 'reality'), I could in fact be the world's wealthiest person before the age of sixty.
While I may never be reach the top of this financial ladder, I will - even better than what George and Weezie hoped for - one day have a De-LUXE apartment in the sky.
My Information & entry from 9/5/2003:
How rich are you? >> I'm loaded. It's official. I'm the 57,906,565 richest person on earth! |
My first instinct was to disagree with this. But the more I thought about it, it's probably correct (although I'm sure i'm tied with tens of thousands of others). and it does help give perspective. I have tried to never gripe about how much I make, but like all of you (don't deny it), would like to earn more. Until I notice that I'm in the .965% of the world's wealthiest people, that 5.9 billion people make less than me. then I just fall on my face and praise God for his grace and mercy, and repent of my greed. Oh, how we labor and strive just to move up a few hundredths of that final percentage point.
Someone once asked me how much Bill Gates was worth.
I knew it was in the billions, but just how many I wasn't certain.
The person corrected me. He said, "that's how much money he has. But he's worth exactly what you are worth. He's worth one atoning sacrifice of God's Son."
Wow...I truly am wealthy.
And so are you.