Written by
Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha
If you have no
idea what wealth is, you will not recognize wealth when it comes to you. Wealth
is not necessarily tons of money paid into your bank account; or given to you
in sack loads of diverse currencies such as the United States of America dollars,
the British Pound, The European Union Euro, Canadian dollars, the Japanese Yen,
Chinese, Russian Ruble, Nigerian Naira, Ghanaian Cedi, Indian Rupee or
Indonesian Rupiah or any currency of the world. It is also not gold or diamond
or other precious metals and stones. It is also not real estate which you are
blessed to inherit or acquire on your own.
While all of
these account for wealth, they do not completely make up wealth. They are to
some extent the appearance of wealth. This is why people who are truly blessed
with wealth are not negatively impacted when they lose money in unfavorable
business deals, when real estate is lost to natural or manmade disasters or
poor bargaining powers; or precious stones and metals are lost to people who
specialize in stealing such resources. This is because true wealth is in the
mind; strategically situated in you so that no one can steal it from you except
you decide to give it away for free through indiscretion.
True wealth is
usually a divine gift or divine gifts from God to you, specifically deposited
in you for you to prosper, earn money and acquire what money acquires and what
people erroneously refer to as wealth. That is why a number of people
ignorantly pursue money; slave for money without ever getting real money
because the true wealth which is resident in them and can all money speedily to
them is ignored at the expense of chasing money.
Perhaps, the
story of Ali Hafed who abandoned the large diamond mine given to him in quest
of diamonds which he did not find anyway and died poor best illustrates what
true wealth is all about. All his adult life, Ali Hafed lived in his farm, a
large farm with a stream or river flowing through. This implies that he did not
have to irrigate his farm as the farm was amply supplied with water. This means
that Ali Hafed’s farm was like the land God gave to the Israelites, amply
supplied with water by God. Please read Deuteronomy Chapter 11 verses 10 to 15.
All that was required of Ali Hafed was to till the land, plant his crops, take
care of the weeds and be on the lookout for animals and birds that preyed on
planted crops. Not much work considering though considering that there was much
more to the land Ali Hafed owned than just farming plants. Why? The Bible
records in Deuteronomy Chapter 8 verses 7 to 9 that the land God blessed the
Israelites with was not only for agricultural purposes but also for mining
purposes to unearth the vast deposit of mineral resources that will bring
additional income to them.
While
agriculture would take care of their stomach infrastructure and other needs,
the vast mineral resources would provide additional financial resources for
development that would translate into abundant financial resources which could
be further deployed into other development areas and investments that would
compound into high yields socially, economically, etc. Herein is the crux of
the matter. God did not input the reference to mineral resources for the fun of
it or to massage the ego of the Israelites. The reference to mineral resources
was for them to pay attention to the land as they worked the land; to observe
the land carefully for anything beyond the ordinary. Besides, the Israelites
were not strangers to mineral resources, other precious metals and stones
beneath the earth. They had seen gold and silver as well as other precious
stones while in Egypt. The reference to these resources therefore was for them
to PAY RAPT ATTENTION to the land as they walked and worked; which is what Ali
Hafed should have done the moment he heard about diamonds. He should have
carried out extensive research on where they are found; what they looked like
before selling off his rich diamond mine which he erroneously thought was only
an agricultural land. A little more patience, more attention to details would
have revealed that the bright colored stones he saw at the river, close to the
river, on the ground as he dug up soil preparing the land to plant crops were
the diamonds he went in quest of in his ill fated journey which impoverished him
to death.
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