Do you know anyone who is financially well off and secure, who has an abundance of things and often dines in good restaurants, who enjoys life and has a good time, and who is well thought of in the community?

You may be such a person yourself, but if not, wouldn’t you like to be? In such a situation we could declare that life is good, that we are content, and that the future looks okay.

Do you know anyone who is poor, hungry, grieving, hated, excluded, reviled, and defamed? I sincerely hope you are not such a person. We consider anyone who has all these woes as an extremely unfortunate individual indeed.  Most of us do not even know such a person.

And yet, listen to the words of Jesus in the Gospel of Luke, Chapter 6, Verse 25: “Woe to you who are full now, for you shall be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep. What sorrow awaits you who are fat and prosperous now, for a time of awful hunger awaits you. What sorrow awaits you who laugh now, for your laughing will turn to mourning and sorrow.”

What is going on here? Doesn’t Jesus have it all upside down? This sounds like topsy-turvy Christianity to me.

As has been said many times in this topsy-turvy world of ours – THE “HAVES” ARE THE ONES ON TOP IN THIS WORLD. THE “HAVE-NOTS” WILL BE THE ONES ON TOP IN THE NEXT WORLD. And the Next World is going to last for a long, long, long time for us all.

Thanks to J. Will Ormond for sharing.

What are YOUR thoughts about the words of Jesus and a topsy-turvy Christianity?

WE ARE NOT SELF-SUFFICIENT, WE ARE GOD-DEPENDENT!

You will find 365 wonderful poems in my book, A POEM A DAY TO PRAY 2025. https://treatsforthesoul.org/a-poem-a-day-to-pray/

Please remember Pope Francis today in your prayers.