There are two wonderful tips on "how to avoid a pretentious wealth" in the 13th chapter of Proverb! They encouraged us to find our true vision of life.
"Easy come, easy go, but steady diligence pays off." -Prov 13:11 MSG
"One pretends to be rich, yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth." -Prov 13:7 ESV
Many of you are probably familiar with "Alice in the Wonderland", where Alice is a character who went into a trippin' world called Wonderland. At first, she thought that everything was merely a dream. But after a while, she found that her trippin' world wasn't trippin' at all. Awake, she finally mustered up a courage to take a stand. Like Alice, we may view some people under the influence of drugs as all trippin', while unbelievers, like Alice, may view us Christians as trippin' as well. Alice once viewed herself as trippin'. After the talk with Absolem, she finally discover her reality. She then realized that all of her memories weren't trippin'! They are her actual memories in the Wonderland, which is real! Their talk goes like this:
Alice said to Absolem, the caterpillar, "Why are you upside down?" "I've come to the end of this life," he said in a cocoon, "transform". When Alice didn't want Absolem to go, he told her that he had to go because Alice had to figure things out on her own (with God, I added) to discover her true vision (I had to pause the video to capture those words for they excited me!).
In fact, ever since Adam and Eve ate the illegal fruit everything had been upside-down! It's easy for us to find an easy way out such as marrying a wealth guy. Cheating our way up the ladder to a success, which may leave us crushed easily as the way we came up. "Easy come, easy go". We love to find an easy way, something fast! But this verse shows us that "steady diligence pays off." Alice once thought that she should agree to marry this wealthy guy to please her mother and to settle herself down for a secured life. But after a tough lesson through her Wonderland (like how we may learn our tough lesson through seeing the unseen kingdom as we grow in Him), she learned that she had to discover her true vision. She fought her way out of the scheme to find her true self! Now she's starting a true vision of working with her almost father-in-law to start an innoviative business, which she plans to expand it into China and Hong-Kong! What a big dream!
We may be like Alice or Absolem. If we live under the pretentious wealth like Alice almost did, then we may need someone like Absolem to help us discover the reality. But God's the only One who can bring us into the "Wonderland" so that we may see the spiritual world and discover what's our true God-given purpose being on the earth. If we know someone like Alice, then we may be like Absolem who may direct Alice to discover herself in what non-believers may call a trippin' world by telling her that she's starting to be more and more like Alice, go on!
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