The majority of the worlds’ poor are said to live in rural areas and are disproportionately dependent on their natural resources and not on their human capital and capacity for survival. Poverty is closely associated with illiteracy. Survey shows that 80% of rural poor people have no formal education. Education and vocational skill training are critical success factor for human and economic development on a long term. The vicious circle of poverty tends to feed on the power of ignorance.
Poverty is a plague. There is no pleasure in poverty, no usefulness whatsoever in going through life subjecting yourself to lack and limitation. If your desire is to be rich, you must believe in the desire and right to be rich before you will ever become one. It is not a sin to aspire to be rich if your motives are very sincere.
Man’s right to life means his right to have the free and unrestricted use of all the things which may be necessary for his complete development. It is perfectly all right for anyone to want to be rich; for a man’s highest and happiest moment is found in the bestowal of gifts on those he loves. The man who has nothing to give cannot fill his proper place as husband, father and citizen. A man must be able to, as a man, provide for himself and his family. No man ought to be satisfied with little, if he is capable of using and enjoying more.
I once heard somebody say, that “the man who owns all he wants for living of all the life he is capable for his rich. And no man who has plenty of money can have all he wants”. The fact is that it is not possible to live a really complete and satisfactory life unless one has the means. No man can rise to his greatest possible height in human development unless he has plenty of money to use. Our society is so organized that you must have money in order to acquire something for your comfort. Money make the world go round, it is the currency of life.
Wrong believe about money.
One of the most common deeply embedded and harmful beliefs is that money is bad or demonic. Supporting this with the popular passage that, “money is the root of all evil”. While actually the entire passage reveals – “the love of money is the root of all evil”. Obviously the uncontrolled love of money can promote greed and self-centeredness, but the danger actually lies in becoming a slave of money. Money is an excellent servant but can also assume the position of a very powerful master or monster if the desire for acquiring it is not properly guided by godly values and principles.
Money is badly maligned in many areas of our society and some of those reasons are quite justified. But money should be seen as it is an economic tool for getting things done. The more money you have, the more things you can get done. At this stage, you must realize that money is merely a means to an end and not end of itself. Money is a means of livelihood.
There is a very wrong assumption that money as an essential commodity is ‘mint’ for the rich few and that is why money is a relatively scarce resource. The rich and the poor, God made them all and what he can make happen for one he can make happen for another irrespective of who you are or where you come from, irrespective of religion, gender, tribe, race etc. God is not a respecter of persons or place but a respecter of covenants particularly His covenant of wealth.
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