Poverty, as much as it’s a test of
hardship, it’s largely your state of mind. Most successful people see it is a
road map, a key to success/ prosperity for a wise and a diligent man. It has
been argued that fortune only abides with him that employs, in his poor heart,
the instrument of wisdom and diligence in his work so that in prudence, he becomes
successful/ prosperous.
It has also been argued that poverty
does not mean total lack but, the lack of satisfaction or contentment for the
one you have. While it takes lacks to acquire that you don’t have. In your
want, one is a lack for two to the infinite until, the momentum hits your greed,
you may not know that one is better than all the piles you may never need.
Subjectively, poverty is that
reminder, that alarm that triggers when your wants are not met by your have.
Then, your press to meet the mark of your needs! It is not the apple cat
spilling everywhere, it is not the running over, or a keg of wine, but, that
level of content, a drop or even a pitch without hurt, without deadness of mind,
that makes you happy, fulfilled that even those that abide by you, celebrate it
with joy.
Poverty shouldn’t and can not breed
sorrow to a wise and diligent man, rather, it makes him resolute, it instills
in him a mind set, boldness to confront the error, and it makes him to set the
clock, so that he meets his needs and the needs of others, immediate or
otherwise.
In the spiritual, you are not actually
poor, if you know the wealth within you. Nature does not have a place for
nothing. As long as there is intercourse between the earth and the heaven, rain
must come into the womb of the earth. And all plants will surely blossom. For
out of the earth they were taken, so it must return. The factors that perform
the miracle are none of our concern. They work sincerely in silence and obscurity,
but the result is made manifest openly. This is the blessing, whether of nature
or of man, it is the anointing that flows from heaven unto the earth or from
the crown unto the soles. This is the mystery that makes life a success.
Poverty that makes one miserable is
foisted on man by a fellow man. This type that first feeds on your mind to
destroys your strength and reduces your self worth with a utopia promise. And,
you become a prey to predators that specialize in devouring the weak. These
predators are in all areas of life. Some politicians in developing countries
have in their fear and greed induced poverty, and have become kleptomaniac to
the plundering of that region at the expense of the citizenry. The citizens now
lack everything from stable electricity to good road, and portable water
becomes unaffordable.
In another area, the anointing of blessing in
you is systematically guided and channeled by another in presumed authority of spiritual
callings, to flow from the feet to the head with testimonies by those (hypnotized
with the fear of disasters) who have obeyed; and you are encourage to discard
the belief in hard work and self worth but that, prosperity is embedded in
flukes and mysteries that break the yoke of stagnations. This is where poverty actually
devours the truth of happiness and contentedness as the fulfillment of life. In
the guiles to take that which you have, you are bamboozled into a belief system
of building empires for the head where the riches of heaven will trickle down
to the feet. So that, even the little you have is taken from you and added to
the one of such whose pot is already full.
These people, by their greed, are the
poor in our society. In their abundance, they are always in want. They con,
steal, defraud and attempt to destroy others by instilling the fear of God? No,
of hell to fleece the flocks
It is hard to say that, he that never
hunger will assuredly knows the real taste of food. Even as one born into
affluence will hardly understands what it takes not to have.
Poverty is a stepping stone to
success or prosperity, not meant to hold you bound in some religion utopia
promises.
