Are you afraid to say that you desire to be rich? Does it seem like
everyone is going around behaving like they shun wealth and yet they
are trying very hard to get wealthy? The lack mentality is something
that is often regarded as humility, but it is actually the cause of much
misery.
While we all admire people that are wealthy and almost everyone wishes
to drive a car like that person or live in a house like so and so, it is a
wonder that speaking of this desire explicitly is something that we mostly
shy away from. The majority of people, if asked whether they desire to
be rich, will say something to the effect that they do not want to be
rich, but simply want to be “comfortable.” Only a minority would
comfortably say they want to be rich.
There are several reasons for this. The strongest is that from a cultural
and misled “Christian” perspective, wanting to be rich is seen as being
equal to greed and gluttony. There has been a long tradition of teaching
that the rich cannot please God and cannot enter into heaven for one
reason or another. Poverty has been erroneously substituted for humility
and spirituality. The often misquoted phrase “money is the root of all evil”
comes to mind, when in fact the correct quote should be that “the love
of money is the root of all evil.”
But, as Wallace D. Wattle observed in his book The Science of Getting
Rich, “You must get rid of the last vestige of the old idea that there is
a Deity whose will it is that you should be poor, or whose purposes may
be served by keeping you in poverty…It is the desire of God that you
should get rich. He wants you to get rich because he can express himself
better through you if you have plenty of things to use in giving him
expression. He can live more in you if you have unlimited command of the
means of life.”
Wattle, in this very enlightening classic, explains that to live fully a man
must love and “love is denied expression by poverty.” The reason for this
is that love finds it’s most natural expression in giving and in order to
give to those we love we must have all the necessities and luxuries of
life at our disposal. Besides, how can you hope to help the poor and
needy if you yourself are in their shoes? Get rich; that is the best way
you can help the poor.
The necessity of wealth – fear is a hindrance
Another reason people keep their desire to get rich secret is that they
are afraid and in fear. They are afraid that they might fail to attain
the wealth they desire and they doubt their ability to acquire that
wealth. It seems far safer not to express the desire, lest someone should
know about it and their shortcomings become evident if they fail.
Because of this they choose to hide or suppress the desire and behave
like they are content to just get by and be comfortable. Yet secretly
they are buying lottery tickets and scheming about how to get that
lucky break. The thinking seems to be that it is wrong to want to be
rich, but if you happen to stumble upon wealth or God blesses you with
it, then that’s okay: you’re just one lucky guy.
This view of wealth and being rich is a huge hindrance
to its attainment. It is a view that any dreamer should
not hold. You should desire to be rich and have the
faith and courage to know that you can be rich.
“There is nothing wrong in wanting to get rich. The
desire for riches is really the desire for a richer,
fuller, and more abundant life; and that desire is praise
worthy. The man who does not desire to live more
abundantly is abnormal, and so the man who does not
desire to have money enough to buy all he wants is
abnormal,” according to Wattle.
The necessity of wealth – it’s all in your
head
Your thoughts are the building blocks of your life and therefore they
must be in harmony with what you intend to build. If you desire riches,
you cannot hold the thought that it’s wrong or shameful to be rich.
That contradiction between your thoughts and your actions in itself will
prevent you from getting rich, no matter how much action and effort
you put into trying to get rich. There are laws at work in the universe
that you must adhere to.
The spiritual law of cause and effect dictates that what you deeply
think about and accept you ultimately get. Your actions are important,
but they are secondary. Planting and watering a mango whilst you think
about harvesting a pawpaw will never bring the pawpaw about. So
working diligently towards riches, when you have planted the seed of
poverty and lack in your mind will always produce poverty and lack.
Have it settled in your mind that you can and will be rich. There are
enough resources and opportunities for you do so. Know that there will
always be enough money waiting for you out there. The world will not
run out of resources on you. Get rid of the idea that in order for you
to have more someone must have less. There is more than enough to go
around.
Get rid of the idea that there are external factors, such as the
government, inflation and taxes that will prevent you from getting rich.
How are others making it under the same conditions? The environment
has nothing to do with it. Get rid of the idea that God is pleased with
poverty and lack. How can he be? He is the creator of everything and
the richest being in the whole universe. Get rid of the idea that you are
in the wrong profession to get rich. There are poor doctors and rich
doctors in the same cities. Profession has nothing to do with it.
It all has to do with your thoughts and the follow-up to those thoughts,
which is your actions. Anyone can be rich if they know this truth and
desire riches enough to act on it. The rich are so because they do things
a certain way. The poor are so because they do not do the things that
the rich do. It is that simple.
No man can fully express himself or find fulfillment in life if he is in
lack. As the book of Proverbs says “the destruction of the poor is their
poverty,” but “the rich man’s wealth is his strong city.” Money answers
all things and is the key to taking hold of opportunity and progressing in
life. Do not be ashamed of it.
Consider the words of Paul to the Corinthians: “For ye know the grace
of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes
he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.”
See you at the top!!!
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