If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? (Luke 16:11) KJV
New International Version
So if you have not been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches?
Would you want to be rich ? You may so know ,but truth is the majority of humankind would prefer to be rich then poor. And yet only a few people are rich while the rest are in the middle class or poor.
Question?
Which one would you rather be?
1. A farmer
2. A beggar
I know the answer already. All of you would choose to be a farmer. Who in their right mind would want to be a beggar?
A farmer provides to society and is a person who has resources; while a beggar, well, just begs and consumes. A farmer works hard to produce and provide, while a beggar waits for resources to be provided to him. One of the reasons rich people are few, is because it requires a lot of efforts to become rich.
Supply chains
While the beggar is waiting for someone to come and feed him, the man who desires to be rich is working, looking for something he can provide to others, even looking for a manufacturer that can sell him raw materials at a low cost. The person who desires to be rich must work hard. He must seek a product, find a manufacturer, bring the product to his store, seek out buyers or advertise the product and sell it at a good price to consumers. The rich man becomes a pillar of his community because he is seeking to provide. The poor beggar is rejected because he only seeks to get.
As in the material, so is the spiritual. Our world is a one full of beggars. A man who has money is attractive and a poor man, a beggar, is rejected by even his family members. You will feel safe walking in an affluent neighborhood, while you will be on constant guard walking in a poor neighborhood. Everyone wants to marry into riches, while no one wants to marry into poverty if they could choose.
Our world is dangerous because it is a world of beggars, spiritual beggars. Our world is destitute of true riches, spiritual riches.
Spiritual riches!
I can have all the money in the world, but if I am lacking in spiritual riches, I am nothing but a beggar.
What are spiritual riches?
1. Meekness
2. Joy
3. Longsuffering
4. Self-control
5. Peace
6. Faith
7. Gentleness
8. Love
9. Goodness
The majority of human beings are destitute of these riches. Majority of human beings are broke when it comes to true riches. Why, you may ask?
1. Because we either don't know where to get them
2. We prefer to beg for them from others
A life as a beggar is a miserable one. No one wants you in their homes, no one wants to be your friend. A person devoid of spiritual riches will have a miserable existence.
The love of beggars
When it comes to love, a beggar will be one who is always seeking after love to consume, but a farmer (rich man/woman) will be one who is always seeking love from its manufacturer (God), in order to provide to others.
Our society is a consuming one; Our "manufacturers have moved out of the country”. As a result, we produce nothing, but consume.
A consumer mindset in love is one where we expect others to love us while we produce no love for them.
God the great manufacturer!
If you want to be rich, you must seek out the greatest Manufacturer of goods in the universe; The manufacturer of spiritual riches: God Himself. God is the source of all true riches and is willing to sell it to us "without money and without price”. Christ has already paid for all the goods available for us. All we have to do is become a businessman, an entrepreneur in the sharing of spiritual riches.
It takes work to be a loving person. It takes work to love others, to be patient with them, etc. True riches requires perseverance.
A call to be spiritual entrepreneurs.
God is calling us to wealth, to prosperity, to the acquisition of true riches; Spiritual riches.
God is calling us to be loving and lovable Christians. God is calling us to be patient, kind, to have peace etc.. but you won't find it from the beggars of this world; Those who lack spiritual riches. You must go to God yourself.
A beggar believes it is better to receive than to give, while a true rich man believes it is better to give than to receive. For it is as we give that we increase our wealth.
A businessman is happiest when his store is sold out, empty, because then he can go and buy more to sell. A poor man likes to hoard, to keep for himself what he has received. God has not called us to be beggars, but to riches. The true child of God is rich; He is a millionaire, a billionaire when it comes to true wealth. He receives from God and he goes out to sell to humanity. He/she seeks love from God in order to bring it to others and encourage them to go to God so they also may become rich in love, mercy and goodness.
If you want to be spiritually rich in love, mercy, goodness, peace, patience, joy etc., you must seek it from God: the greatest Manufacturer of these spiritual goods. Instead of waiting for someone to come and love us (the beggar mindset), let us seek to become entrepreneurs in selling true love, by demonstrating it in our lives. Let us seek to sell all the love we have in our store (hearts), so that we may have more space to receive from God. Our wealth will increase the more we sell to others, our love will increase the more we love others. Seek true riches, let God be the source of your wealth.
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