THE MEANING OF TRUE WEALTH

The subject of wealth and riches is a sensitive one to many people. Most of us have been trained wrongly to view wealth from a negative light.

And the mentality of our parents in those days was that those who drove expensive cars then, were either armed robbers or ritualist.

I have read so many stories of great American industrialists like John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and the young Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.

It was Andrew Carnegie that finally taught me what true wealth really is. Andrew is the second richest man in the history of America, after John D. Rockefeller. He is worth an estimated $309 billion dollars (By comparison, the richest man today, Bill Gates is worth $89 billion ) .

In his book, “The Gospel of Wealth”, which i read, I learnt that the true meaning of wealth and I was forever free from the subconscious stigmatization of wealth, that has held many people in poverty.

What exactly did I learn from Andrew Carnegie?

Wealth is not evil. Money is not the root of all evil (even the bible supports this fact).

Wealth actually is Service.

Wealth is an indices that shows how much Service you have rendered to the society.

Remember, I am talking about “True Wealth”, not stolen money.

The more Services you render, the more the society will pay you.

To make wealth in the right way, is a noble thing. When I see an entrepreneur who is worth 100s of millions, my interest is, what kind of Services is this person providing to the society.

When you begin to see wealth in this light, you will start removing all the negative stereotypes regarding wealth that we were taught either by our parents, or by certain religious beliefs.

Christianity teaches us of Abraham as one of the wealthiest men of his time. What of Job who suffered terribly, but God later blessed him with great wealth and of course there is Solomon.

According to the Holy Book, Solomon never even asked for wealth, he only asked for wisdom.

So if wealth is evil, why did God decide to bless Solomon above every man of his time?

I think that it is the devil who makes our young ones to believe that it is the devil that gives wealth. That is a big lie from the devil himself. The devil only comes to steal, to kill and to destroy. He does not give True Wealth.

Bill Gates gave us Microsoft and the ability for everyone to have a computer in his house. In return, all of us paid him $89 billion dollars for his effort. Steve Jobs gave us Apple, ipod, iphone etc and all of us all over the world, combined to pay his company “APPLE INC” over $600 billion dollars in cash.

Mike Adenuga introduced per second billing in GSM, we decided to keep paying him billions of naira every year, as long we recharge our Glo sim cards.

South African Billionaire Christo Wiese, gave us Shoprite, and the love of “swag” shopping, and in return we are “swagging” and “shopping” and paying him billions of dollars every year.

So please let’s stop deceiving ourselves. True Wealth is a measure of the kind of value a person gives to the society. The reward for your services, is what society calls your wealth indices.

Our youths must discard the idea that the devil gives wealth. It is a lie.

A man’s gift makes way for him.

Any man who is diligent with the works of his hands, he will sit with Kings and with Princes and not with mean men.

Stop looking for ritual money, it is fake. Don’t go and take someone’s life in the name of rituals. The devil will only use this means to take your soul and ensure that you will never have peace of mind.

Notice that we talked about wealth, not money. Money is just an aspect of wealth. Wealth is much more than just money.

Other components of wealth are: Peace of Mind, Health, Love etc.

If the devil takes your Peace of Mind and your Health, you can never be wealthy, no matter how much money you have.

If you doubt it, let me give you hundred million naira, but also give you a disease that will forcefully shut your anus. Before two (2) weeks is over, if you are still alive, you will be begging any doctor to collect the hundred million naira, and just open your anus…lols.. Just an illustration, but that is exactly what the devil can do.

Never seek for wealth through evil means – whether it is rituals, evil cults, kidnapping, armed robbery, yahoo yahoo, etc.

If you do, you may get money, but you will never get Wealth.

Remember this, “True Wealth” is as a consequence of the Services you render to the society. Find something you can do, that will benefit others, and find a way to benefit as many people as you can with your Services, and you will be Wealthy.

Cheers!!!