Even though it started few years earlier but sometime in 2008, we started receiving news reports of a slow down in the world economy or what most have come to know as the global economic meltdown.
The story goes that some borrowers in the U.S. were unable to pay back their loans from the sub prime lending scheme for mortgages, which triggered a crisis that made U.S. banks to stop lending to customers.
Some U.S. banks started declaring bankruptcy with losses running into billions of dollars.
As a result, most American consumers were unable to finance their consumption of goods and services, which in turn affected manufacturers in the U.S. and exporters of goods from other countries to the U.S. who were unable to find a market for their finished goods.
Consequently, such companies started laying off their staff in thousands and hundreds of thousands and this continues to this day.
Little by little, some countries had then declared they were officially in recession and their home governments put in place intervention financial packages in banks particularly, and some other manufacturing concerns aimed at “jump starting” economic activities again.
Fortunately, we have also received reports in recent times that some of these countries are out of recession and things are picking up again and looking bright generally.
Some of the rescued banks and manufacturing concerns have again started declaring billions of dollars in profit and have started to employ staff again.
As all these things were then happening, one question I asked myself was “where did all the money in losses disappear to? Did they vanish into thin air or what exactly happened to them?”
I pondered over this question every now and then until I came up with one answer – the money never went anywhere; it is invested in real estate and wherever else the banks put them.
What I also observed is that economic activities slowed down not because some nasty thing happened but basically because of fear that triggered the wrong thinking in business people and consequently affected their actions!
How I know this is because as I said earlier, the monies never vanished into thin air and when banks and business people became a lot more confident, economic activities returned – in essence, everyone’s thinking changed again positively!
My reason for taking time to write all the preceding paragraphs is to make you, dear reader, to realise that it is peoples’ thinking that really drives their actions. If you could just take time to ponder this statement, you will begin to think positive thoughts about what you really want in life and your world would begin to also change positively too.
People usually limit themselves by thinking the resources of the world are limited and would become exhausted soon and so they limit their thinking again by believing only the rich can have access to it.
They further erroneously believe that the only way to become rich is by dishonest acts and so they then try to engage in a lot of wrong doing just to make it in life. This is exactly what wrong thinking results in.
The world God created is filled with abundant of resources that can NEVER EVER be exhausted. How do I know? Let us look at Sacred Scriptures in Matthew 6: 24 - 27 where Jesus said, “No one can be a slave of two masters; he will hate one and love the other; he will be loyal to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.
This is why I tell you not to be worried about the food or drink you need in order to stay alive, or about clothes for your body. After all, isn’t life worth more than food? Isn’t the body worth more than clothes? Look at the birds; they do not sow seeds, gather a harvest and put it in barns; yet your Father in heaven takes care of them! Aren’t you worth much more than birds? Can any of you live a bit longer by worrying about it?”
Notice that Jesus said do not be worried over these things. Most people worry over these things, end up having hypertension, then stroke and then die.
This is exactly why Jesus says you cannot live a bit longer by worrying over these things because God who created you, everyone and me is more than able to provide for all of us if we would just believe by thinking the right thoughts always with gratitude to God.
Some people may also misunderstand when Jesus talks about loyalty to God and despising money. Let us look again at 1 Timothy 6: 9 – 10, “but those who want to get rich fall into temptation and are caught in the trap of many foolish and harmful desires, which pull them down to ruin and destruction.
For the love of money is a source of all kinds of evil. Some have been so eager to have it that they have wandered away from the faith and have broken their hearts with many sorrows”.
Notice that this scripture passage states like Jesus also said the love of money. So it is the love of money and not money itself that is the problem here since money is required to pay bills of every kind.
If one’s search for money leads one to many foolish and harmful desires by engaging in wrongdoing like prostitution, armed robbery, stealing from the office, selling inferior goods, etc, then such an individual loves money and that scripture is referring to them to desist from such.
On the other hand, if one’s conduct of business transactions or services brings money with commensurate or greater benefit to the receiver of the goods or services without harm to oneself, then all is in order.
Again, I say it is an individual’s thinking that drives his or her actions and so if you understand this, I need you to also understand that the world God created has abundance of resources that cannot run out.
If you could just develop this mindset, you will never limit your thinking to only what you think you can have but to anything created by God and thank Him for creating abundant resources. With this mindset, you can have whatsoever you desire in life legitimately and without stress or pain to yourself or anyone else.
There you have another great wealth secret!
© copyright Gabriel Ama
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