Be Wealthy

God wants us to be wealthy! That's the plain truth and you will find many many testaments to this form Genesis to Revelations.

However, not too many are able to achieve it.

Why? Because we have wrong notions about being wealthy, and we have even wrong religious notions about being wealthy.

I would advise you again to read the 8 Secrets of Truly rich by Bro Bo Sanchez to re-program our money mind sets. Being wealthy can be done while we build treasures in heaven.

It became much clearer to me, how do we become wealthy in the true sense of being "truly rich" not just materially but spiritually at the same time.

To be truly rich we need to understand the difference between achieving and fulfilling, difference between Achievements and Fruitfulness.

Both really requires hard work, patience, endurance, skills, intelligence, and passion but I assure you, the sure way to heaven is to be fruitful and fulfilled.

All my life, I have been driven with the desire to achieve. This is what the world is teaching us to do. The world teaches us to be full of self. Be the number one, be the head, be the president. Be on top of the world. Be the richest man on earth.

Well, is there something wrong about it? Yes, there is something wrong if our desire to achieve is driven by self. By our EGO which if spelled correctly also reads EVIL.

There is indeed a very thin line between achieving and fulfilling. This is in the SELF. If our desires is Full of Self (Selfish) or EGO-tistic, then being wealthy is useless. This is like the rich man who had a good harvest and planned to build a bigger barn for himself. What happened to him? He got ruined.

To be wealthy in the right sense therefore is to be Less of Self (Selfless). Not ego centric.

That is the secret. To be wealthy means to be self less.

When you are selfless, your desire is for others. When you are self less, you tend to live a simple life for you do not have to be showy on your possessions.

In my silent reflection on this, the images that came to my mind that made this more clearer is that of juice glass. The Lord tells me the glass is myself , the water in the glass are the other people while the Lord is the powdered juice.

If I only have myself without God and others, that is an empty life as in empty glass. If I only have only my self and my God, I can not be the juice I ought to be. If I only have me and the glass is filled up to the brim with others, how can He our Lord God come in?

For me to be the juice for others, I must have enough of others, and God.

The next thing I must do is to pour out the juice by having someone drink it so I can have it filled up again.

Some people do that, but they limit themselves to their capacity. This means that , since they were born poor, they think they would not have enough and thus only pour a little, thus they remain poor. Poor because they fail to see another secret to being wealthy.

To be wealthy means being able to let go. To be able to pour out our juice. Being wealthy means being able to give and not keep. Most people are with scarcity mentality that they do not want to share what they posses. They cannot see the generosity of God. The more we pour out, the more our capacity to receive will increase as the Lord our God wont be outdone in generosity. That is His promise. He will even replace our glass size to a bigger one so we can have more people to be helped.

So there you are, the secrets to being wealthy.

It is not the amount of money we keep for ourselves that will make us wealthy, but the amount of money we can give from what we have.

So, wealth is not measured in absolute amount. It is measured in ratios. You can be wealthy no matter who you are.

Let me expound on this next blog.

God bless.