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In actuality, it’s law. And you know what? The
law applies whether we chose to believe it or not.
For example, let’s take a stop sign and post it
in a new area in which you are accustomed to driving. You know that
it hasn’t been there. With a policeman right across the street
giving tickets, betting people will continue in tradition, rather
than paying attention to the change you travel on through it.
Once you run the stop sign, even though it hasn’t
been there, you don’t get a warning but a ticket. It’s not fair you
scream! But alas, the law is the law, and the law states that we
must come to a complete stop at a stop sign. Therefore we spend more
money on that which is not beneficial for securing our future
finances.
A Few Points
When we spend our finances in this manner, we are
choosing to invest in prospering others that have no interest in
whether or not we prosper. It’s called an investment with no chance
of a return.
The point I’m trying to make is that we must
recognize and apply the law in order to avoid unwanted and
unnecessary trouble.
And so failing to apply even though we know,
and/or failing to recognize whether we know or not (as a judge will
tell you that ignorance of the law is no excuse), has consequences
that can turn into consistent bad-habits should we fail to learn.
Therefore we tend to repeat and stay in the same circle of “going
through”.
$$$ - A Lesson Learned
Now if I share this truth with you, I don’t want
you getting mad at me J. Would you prefer the kiss of an enemy, or
the truth of a friend even though you know it hurts?
In 1986 I was blessed in having a job in which I
made $24.88 an hour. In addition they paid me $65 a day per diem in
a separate check. Now the ironic thing is that my blessing wasn’t in
the amount of money I made (because it was surely enough to make the
ends meet), but the lesson I learned from walking away from it with
not enough savings.
You see, at that point and time in my life, my
mind-set told me that this would always be so. At that time, I
believed I was truly wealthy with not financial care in the world.
So I chose to spend a majority of the money I made on my wants
first. Wants in which not one of them do I have today. The
bottom line is, I don’t have a penny to show for it!
I was told to put money up for rainy days, yet I
failed to apply what I thought I knew. And as I said before, the
reason was that I didn’t believe rainy days would come. Totally
clueless as to what my real needs were.
Today however, my mind-set is totally different.
You see, that experience was a lesson learned. Through it, I have
been doubly blessed to learn how to apply certain principles that
would keep me from experiencing that fate again.
Applying the Principles
Among the top of those principles is “give and
it shall be given”. There is a clause in that principle as well,
“When wealth is given to you, what are you going to do with it?”
By testing God in my tithing, I’ve learned
another valuable lesson. YOU CAN’T OUT GIVE GOD! He has given me the
tools to manage money effectively and the wisdom to gain wealth.
The money we make is not ours to do with as we
please. It is given to us to manage so that no one has to be
without. If I remain selfish in my prosperity, and fail to prosper
my brother or sister, then how do I know whether or not if I am the
cause of not yet having the cure for cancer?
But if I chose to prosper someone else, it is
quite possible that that someone else could have the cure if…they
only had the means.
By learning to give what is owed I have
experienced the power to gain so much more than just having enough.
It’s called wealth. Now I chose to give even more so. Not out of my
abundance, but because it is the law.
By learning what my real needs are I have
learned to invest into that which is lasting, necessary and
beneficial to family and myself.
Now if I were to give you the keys to obtaining
this wealth so that you would never be without again, would you
follow the law? It’s all a matter of YOUR faith. Are you comfortable
in putting your money where your faith is?
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