Dietrich Bonhoeffer once warned that the greatest danger to the church is cheap grace. He described it as “grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ”. Cheap grace assumes God’s forgiveness costs us nothing—not even repentance or obedience.

“For the eyes of the Lord go to and fro throughout the whole earth to find someone whose heart is fully devoted to Him so that He can display his great power by helping them.” Who wouldn’t want to be one on whom God’s gaze rests, who receives help from God, and who helps display God’s glory? This verse appears in 2 Chronicles and is about someone who might have received God’s help, but who foolishly chose a different way.

Once you have covered your basic financial needs such as food and shelter, being poor isn’t as bad for you as feeling poor. A person’s subjective socioeconomic status is far more critical to their health and well being than their objective socioeconomic status.