Winning Poor

...and adorns the poor with victory.

 - From Psalm 149

Everybody wants to win. 

But the Psalmist just said that God adorns the poor with victory. If you want to guarantee a win for yourself, then be poor. 

Am I missing the point? Does it really say to make it your goal, to be poor? Is it referring only to people that are poor, that had rather be rich? Is it for only the poor that hard and invested their own funds, just to lose it all and stay poor? Or is it for all poor - those that deserve poverty, and those that don't?

It doesn't say, and it is doesn't qualify the statement.

I think it's actually telling us, advising us, directing us, to be poor. Because I think that scriptural records says that the path of good deeds actually leads to poverty. But God does not leave His people starving. We can be poor, but we will still be fed. Is this what is meant by "victory"?

I do believe that even people that chose poverty, can live as wealthy even in this life. It's a good thing so many preachers, and so many teachers, can accept their modest lifestyles! But teachers, that stay with the career, end up wealthy (if they have not squandered what they have) and preachers pretty much do the same. When you can live in a parsonage where every repair is taken care of for you, you do not been too high of a salary.

I think it is is saying, too, that if you end up poor, don't worry about it. 

It's going to be okay.