I
won’t beg you to read on. Such staggering statements are not popular in this
part of the world. Well, it is why we have remained where we are. Staggering
statements said to me are as ghosts sealed up in their wooden home. I do not
let them go and you had better not.
Certain questions ran through my mind as I shared a
thought with a brother. I said to him ‘Whatever you do, do it with a global mindset’.
Jesus walked the face of the earth in the relatively unknown town called
Nazareth, yet everybody that must have come in contact with the Christian faith
must have been acquainted with the name just by keeping the account of Jesus’
earthly walk in Israel. And if Judas, had known that his act of stealing from
the disciples treasury would have been read all around the world, perhaps he
would have had a re-think. When I read ‘Judas…, not Iscariot…’ in the Bible, I
came to realize that those little actions in your mind, done in school, room,
etc. can have a global impact, either inspiring people to imitate or as a form
of instruction not to follow.
The letters of Paul, come to think of it, were
not directly written to anyone of us but the letter(s) Paul thought he wrote to
Romans have been read by millions of people the world over who are not Romans.
You say you are reading the book of Romans, Corinthians, Colossians, etc. but I
don’t think it is sinful to say they are equally Paul’s letters. 
Secondly,
it is amazing that God never promised anywhere in the scriptures that he would
give money to his covenant children. If you know the Bible better than I do, I challenge
you to prove me wrong. Didn’t He know that we would need it? If He knew and
never created it, it therefore implies that He never really knows all of man’s
needs or it represents, as some philosophers posit, that He must have been an
imperfect being, a divine being with some flaws. If you share such thoughts, I
shake my head. ‘Thus saith the Lord, thy
Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the Lord thy God which teacheth thee to
profit…’ (Isaiah. 48:17). He will teach, He promised, (anyway, you can’t
hold Him responsible for what you assumed that He said) but that He will give
you money — you will only be in possession of counterfeit currencies and being
in possession of such is only courting an holiday behind the bars!
So,
for God, He has got no money. Oh! That offends your religious mindset. Well, I
repeat: God has got no money! I won’t mind screaming it. However, I am sure of
one thing: He has got ideas: Ideas that can make a 'kobonaire' a millionaire
overnight. Most times, the step between a kobo and a million is just an idea!
Please, ask Apostle Peter. On a lighter note, I feel, the universal currency is
the Naira: millionaire, billionaire, trillionaire, etc. That was just
by the way.
For
everyone that came into stupendous wealth in the Bible, preceding it was an
idea! Isaac (Genesis 26: 12-16) (for Isaac, he must have come about the idea of
irrigation to sustain what he planted. How did I know? There was famine.),
Jacob (Genesis 30: 31-43), Joseph (Genesis 41: 1-40), a certain woman of the
wives of the prophets (I Kings 4: 1-7). In the case of the wife of the prophet,
she had enough to pay the bills, and the prophet added: ‘Go and live on the
rest’. In modern parlance, you will say she hit a jackpot. Don’t ever think it
was just a miracle to settle her bills. Read these biblical references up in
versions other than King James and they will bless you. If there is anything
that we need in the area of finance, it
is the miracle of IDEAS!
Good one.
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