This is the land of the free and the home of the brave. Yes. It is. If you look around at all the complaining, whining people, letting you know in the checkout line how tough life is these days, how expensive things are, all those pastries and cookies and salsa chips, and the beer, well it breaks your heart.
And when you see some child accompanying his frazzled mother, crying out and pawing at the candy bars, insistent on having one, while the mother bears with this disrespect, placing her goods on the checkout conveyor with infinite patience, and half the store now, fidgeting while listening to the child's display...waiting for the smack...waiting for the mother to gain control of her child...
Mom isn't free. She's obviously a servant to her child. Still she lets him scream and wail and theatrically grasp at air...only air....pitiful child who can't have what he wants...
Is it any better for her husband? Can she bear another dinnertime episode hearing him complain on an on about his job, complain about his boss, complain about his coworkers, complain about customers? Who does he have a good word for? And is the pay sweet enough that he can bear a lifetime of this, and not, one day standing in front of the mirror, break down because he sees the Free and Brave MAN he could have been, had he not listened to his fears and refused to pursue his CALLING?
Did the prospect of RISK cause Ma to cajole him every time he suggested making a change in his job? Was she afraid of becoming a pauper if she let him chase his dream? Have he and she settled into the work FARCE, making just enough to get by, but not enough to LIVE?
You can't attract what you argue against.
If your life is an argument for poverty, poverty you will get.
Who argues for prosperity? Who sees failure as a 'learning event' and who has the fanatic faith in their heads that what they give away they get to keep? Who believes that what they give away, God will release to them in more and more abundance?
Well, by what principles do they organize their lives? By what eternal LAWS do they live, do they understand their motives and how to discern right and wrong action? What is the religion of a sated and broke people, who can't see the money all around, who can't call it to themselves, who REPEL IT, by making their lives arguments for poverty?
Is it that God it a pauper,,,He is stingy...and money is EVIL?
Is God short of cash? Does He hate money? If He wants you saving whales, does He get mad if you ask for the resources to DO THIS?
Would He trust this Mom in the checkout line with His resources? Would she bury them until He comes back and asks her how she invested them? What INCREASE did she earn for Him by His investment in her?
Turn this around. Write this down.
Would HE trust what YOU would do with His Resources?
Is your life an argument FOR prosperity and against POVERTY?
How can you give away what you don't own?
And if you live like a Rich Woman, a Rich Man, and if you lavish your money on those you feel called to be a blessing to, what are you embracing? Poverty or Plenty?
Cosmo Dookelo...is a freelance writer and journalist.You can learn more about the financialstate of the Free and the Brave athttp://www.mmmcarlscout.com
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