Getting to the root of poverty:
The first man and woman were created in the image and likeness of God and declared “very good” in his eyes. They were then given the task of serving as God’s representatives within creation. For a time, they lived in perfect harmony with God, each other, and the world around them. But when they chose to sin, everything changed. Their original identity was lost. Their relationships with God, with each other, and with the world were broken, devastated, ruined.
This is poverty in its most true and ultimate sense. Incomparable riches—an unbroken relationship with God and a harmonious relationship with the rest of creation—have been squandered. Everything about our existence has been impoverished as a result of sin.
A fallen world inhabited exclusively by sinners: that is the essence of poverty. Sin, and the effects of sin throughout creation, is the Poverty from which all other poverty flows.
—Aaron Armstrong, Awaiting a Savior (Cruciform Press, 2011), 23.
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