Going to Heaven when Your Parents Went Through Hell

If you're like me you saw your parents go through a lot to get by. My old man worked 3 jobs, mother would work one job but always had some hustle on the side, a backup plan. The old man died and left bills behind, no money, no inheritance; perhaps his other children were able to get more out of the deal, but all I know is that there was nothing but a few hundred, and a radio, that I had to look forward to. My parents came up through hard times; segregation and absolutely none of the social programs that we have to look forward today. They made it without affirmative action, we were never on welfare, and Section 8 was an abstract concept that other people dealt with. They made it without less.

Chances are if you did better than your parents they pat you on the back and you are the best son or daughter they ever had. Your siblings hate to see you come around, because you get to show off the latest car, or a new house, or some other trinket you bought with your hard earned money. As far as your parents are concerned, you are the best, the greatest ever, and you cannot do anything wrong. No one tells you anything about your soul, because people are busy preaching to your siblings about that. They need Jesus, like yesterday, you, you are doing alright, you always have money in your pocket, and food in your stomach.

The irony of this, is that when you stand before God at the throne, your parents and your siblings will not be anywhere to be found. We all know that our parents went through hell, and a lot of them went to hell, and that all we want to do is to make our parents proud, to make them happy, to put a smile on their face. So we buy them a new house, or a new car, or some new clothes, but no one ever wants to talk about the true peace, that true joy that comes when you commit yourself to Jesus Christ.

Money is given, and it is taken away. If you worked hard for it and earned it the right way it will always be there for you. If you went a different way, and earned it through unethical, immoral means, it comes and goes, and it will lead you to your demise. All you know is that no one seems to care when you come around. Are you smart enough to avoid the debt trap? Do you owe man, or does man owe you? Can we hang out with you, or we will be killed if we are standing too close to you? What is it all about?

Do you still have middle class dreams, or do you want to prosper? I was always told that the middle class was the place to be but that conflicted with what I saw with my own eyes. The middle class are not their own, they are owned, and are perpetually in debt, to the ruling class. All it takes is the stroke of a pen for the middle class to lose everything that they have, because they spent so many of their days working for the man they never invest their efforts in making any money anywhere else. They have no investments, they do not have any passive income there is no residual income everything is from blood, sweat and tears. Since there is no physical work to be done that is a metaphor for what they go through psychologically, but the pain is still the same.

We do not have to go down that road, where our parents feel that we are not earning our keep in the right way, if they understand that what we have is a blessing from God. Just for them to say that we are lazy, or that we out of our place; not doing an honest day of hard work, not doing work that is fit for a man, or fit for a woman, questioning our lifestyle. Our lifestyle should be a tool that we can use to witness to them. We do not have to accept that generational curse. But avoiding the generation curse means absolutely nothing, if we are going to the same place that everyone else is going to for an eternity. After all, poverty is the curse that we all want to see, but hell is the curse that no one ever likes to talk about.