"I feel satisfied"

Tonight we had the opportunity to have dinner with Ah Wah. We've known Ah Wah for about a year now, introduced by our friend Sean who would pass by Ah Wah and his buddies every morning on the way to work. A "hello" turned into a courageous "do you want to go for dinner," and now Ah Wah is pretty good friends with a bunch of us from church. 

A couple nights ago, someone stole all of Ah Wah's belongings. They took everything: his mattress, his clothes, his personal belongings, everything. When we met him tonight he shared that he hadn't been sleeping well, no doubt because his mattress was gone. But when we talk to him and asked him how he felt, he told us the unthinkable. "I'm satisfied," he reported, "it's just like the Bible says in Eccleasiastes, all those material things are meaningless. The most important is my relationship with God."

Every time I meet this man I am so humbled. God speaks the profound through the humblest. Through Ah Wah's life I see what it truly means to live a life of contentment not ruled by the material things we chase after. 

Christ is right when He says that the poor in Spirit will inherit the Kingdom of God. From what I see, Ah Wah is already far richer than most I know in this life.