Written by Uyoyou Christiana
Charles-Iyoha
To make you own wealth, you
urgently require a spiritual and mental paradigm shift which will prepare you
mentally and spiritually to move away from dependency on the wealth of other
people. You will need to drop the consciousness of I am created poor; to be
dependent on the genuine or stage managed generosity of the rich; to live off
their handouts. It is a self-limiting
consciousness which impoverishes and fosters generational poverty in families
especially when a member or members of a family accept and internalize that
consciousness and through certain consistent utterances and actions convey and
transmit the consciousness to their children, siblings, other members of the
family as well as neighbours, colleagues, community members and citizens of
their nations.
Have you ever noticed that a
certain aura of neediness pervades and surrounds people with such a
consciousness so that even when they are brought before kings on account of
their divine gifts designed to uplift them out of the dust and ash heap
positions life; that ugly wealth, dignity and honor dispelling aura shows up so
that rather than negotiate positions of power, influence, and wealth with their
divine gifts, they request subservient positions so that they remain at the
beck and call of the rich forever dependent on their supposed generosity
whether genuine or stage managed. That explains why the lame man at the pool in
Bethsaida was content to remain there making up excuses of having no one to
help him. Those excuses and his inability to see that he had taken on an I am a
liability and dependency consciousness and aura was the reason he could not
immediately respond positively to Jesus’ question of whether he wanted to be
made whole despite the fact that Jesus Christ initiated the conversation and
healing process.
In contrast, we see a very
proactive Blind Bartimaeus who had a different consciousness and aura – the God
given consciousness of I am created to win; I am not created a liability but a blessing
to humanity. That explains why he did what he did – deploy the resources at his
disposal to get the attention of Jesus – Jesus Whom he could not see and had
never seen; Jesus Whom he had heard so much about and Whom Blind Bartimaeus
knew could change his status in life – restore his sight so that he would never
have to depend on other people for mobility and sight – that way he could take
on a job and never have to sit at the roadside to beg. Blind Bartimaeus
initiated the process of his interaction with Jesus; subsequent restoration of
his sight as well as freedom and deliverance from the supposedly limitations
which would have kept him dependent and subservient. Unlike the lame man at
Gate Beautiful and the man at the pool in Bethsaida, Blind Bartimaeus refused to
be bound. That explains why he initiated the process by literally taking the
bull by the horns. Even when people
tried to hush him down, he shouted louder; practically shouting himself hoarse until
Jesus paid him attention.
Beloved, you can do same. Poverty
in whatever form is not your portion. God did not create you to be poor;
subservient and dependent on the generosity; whether, stage managed or genuine
of other people. God created you a resource rich person to bless humanity with
the huge deposit of resources inside of you. Why then do you sit lamely as an
unrewarded cheer leader waiting for crumbs from the master’s table? Why do you
allow yourself to be despised and used as a common slave when you can actually
own and control the resources you labor tirelessly for and unrewarded in the
fields of slave drivers?
Like many widowed and poor women of
her days who did not have access to productive resources, Ruth gleaned food
resources from the farms of Boaz. Though she found favor from Boaz and enjoyed
additional handouts to what she gleaned, Naomi was not satisfied at the status
of Ruth, her daughter in-law. Yes, what was gleaned including the additional
handouts put food on the table but Naomi was not satisfied. She knew that life
could be better for Ruth. Besides that was not the quality of life she desired
for the young woman. Secondly, Naomi did not want Ruth to live in and remain
with the consciousness of a gleaner. So Naomi schooled Ruth on how to access
productive resources – through kinship marriage to Boaz; so that from gleaning
in the fields of Boaz which her steps were divinely ordered to, she became the
wife of Boaz and co-owner of the fields of Boaz, fields she once gleaned in.
It is quite significant and
instructive that Ruth lost the consciousness of being a gleaner forever
dependent on the generosity of Boaz and his workers.
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