“Blessed are you who are poor…who are now hungry…who are now weeping…when people hate you, and when they exclude and insult you.” (Luke 6:20-22)

Jesus is affluent because He is God. Everything that belongs to Him belongs to God our Father. However when he was on Earth, he was poor, hungry, weeping and insulted. He wishes that we can learn from Him that the guidelines of life are to strive for peace and happiness in the heart, and to follow God’s will. As the Book of Wisdom has stated, “Everything in this world is illusory.”

In fact, many of those who thought that wealth and power can satiate one’s feeling of emptiness eventually discovered otherwise. That is because without God, earthly things can never fulfill our endless desires. Even though we are born from the earth, our souls belong to our God and are stamped with the essence of the Trinity. St. Augustine once said, “I live in perplexity unless my soul finds God.”

When our hearts are satiated, the amount of wealth becomes meaningless. When we no longer desire material things, we will be satisfied with just water and bread. When we can be at peace, no pain or offense can harm us. Naturally, all these are only possible with Christ’s blessings.