How Desperate Are You?

Monday Motivation: How Desperate are you?

Every heart yearns for success. More importantly for daily sustenance. Many, having conquered basic needs strive for a life of luxury and absolute freedom without stress of any kind. Some are driven to be part of the very few multi billionaires and so are in competition to be in the top numbers of the most wealthy. Some are simply driven by their knack for commerce as a game, pastime or routine work, they are rich but not for any personal vanities.

Many too are poverty driven. The desire to leave poverty, probably having seen or suffered the horrors of it. The fear of poverty, of not going back there or of not experiencing it drive a lot of people.

Poverty can truly be devastating and should not be cuddled nor given a space within our community and economy but it can be a motivator for good. As an inspiration from the rich unto good works or for a desire to work oneself out of it.

Many wants to be rich to break the back of their sense of being oppressed. Their self esteem is affected standing next to someone richer than them. They just can't stand someone else spending while they can't afford to buy things even if not basic things in life. They derive satisfaction and self esteem from being seen as rich. They don't mind being rich but being seen to be rich is more important to them than their being actually rich. They drive the big cars, hang around the same places the rich hang out, they may be neck deep in debt but they'll still spray money at parties and live in the high ends of the community. It is about being seen as rich. They tell anyone who cares what they have, where they've been and what they can afford.

Now, wanting to be rich and why, may not be the problem, what people are ready to do to get rich is actually the problem. Though there is a thin cord that attaches the reason for wanting to be rich to what people are ready to do to get rich.

Some would rather die than not be as rich as they feel is necessary. It all depends on how desperate they are. If a person is desperate enough to be rich, nothing will be too much for him or her to do. It's about being desperate.

But being desperate makes you dangerous, reckless and callous. It is driven by that sense of hopelessness, of last resort, urgency, anxiety and despair. Being desperate removes every sense of decorum, decency or rationality clearing the way of any restraints that may discourage from doing whatever the desperado feels is necessary.

Most desperate people won't listen to the voice of wisdom while they put themselves and others in the path of danger and destruction to get whatever they feel they need to succeed.

Despair makes you feel you have done all that are possible to get what you want and have failed and now you have to do what may not be generally acceptable to arrive at what you want so badly.

I saw a video recently of a young man copulating with a cow in a bush, the person who sent it said it was a kind of money ritual. The cow was to be killed and the meat served at a party from where the fortunes of the partakers would be withdrawn for the guy who did that. Meanwhile, whoever told him to do that didn't tell him that when you join yourself to another being you become one with the being. While there is a spiritual law of sacrifice, that was typified and ended with Christ on the cross, there is also another law of oneness, where you become one essentially with whoever you have sex with...what has become of that man in the realm of the spirit can only be imagined, yet without any guarantee that those sacrifices will work.

Desperation is often a sign that what it inspires is an error and that it most probably won't work or end well because it doesn't permit any reasoning outside some vague imaginations and superstitions.
You can imagine the amount of crime desperation has inspired, the number of people in jail or who have engaged in dangerous crimes and got killed for being desperate.
You can imagine how many die daily from dangerous crossing of Sahara desert and the Mediterranean Sea out of desperation. You can imagine many who have been lost in strange lands because they fell for the horrors of desperation.

You can imagine the number of people who have been hurt, deprived of their valuables or murdered because of some desperados who would want to live a certain kind of life at all cost, not minding what sorrows and pains they cause others.

Being desperate makes you think you've exhausted all legal and normal ways of finding solutions to your problems. When you start feeling that no one gets rich without joining a cult, doing something diabolical, stealing or killing someone, then you are setting up yourself for the negative motivations that comes out of being desperate. Just anything will crack the flames that will destroy things. When you feel evert rich man must be a thief or a murderer, then you are prepping yourself up for trouble. Such thoughts are unreasonable but being desperate, it won't be thought through to see the holes in such ideologies.

Desperation makes one vulnerable. You can hardly be duped when you aren't desperate. Human trafficking is boosted by that sense of being desperate the victims acquire somewhere there making them susceptible to those who will enslave them.

The truth is that you don't have to steal, kill or destroy others to be rich. When you argue this statement then you are ready to do things out of being desperate and no one is safe around you, not even your parents, your wife or your children. It's good to mark desperate people and avoid them. Anyone who's desperate to achieve success in anything can be dangerous, even if desperate to be a successful pastor. Judas didn't mind betraying Jesus Christ just for a few pieces of silver. We must be careful.

The truth about life is that you don't need all the money in the world to be comfortable. Our desire to be rich must come with constraints and not with despair. Why would you gain the whole world just to lose your soul? What would you pay to gain back your soul? That is one of the things Jesus Christ taught on this subject matter. The whole world gained can't be enough as an exchanged for a lost soul.

Apostle Paul explained it to Timothy this way...

[My Offline Bible] 1 Timothy 6
5. Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.
6. But godliness with contentment is great gain.
7. For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.
8. And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.
9. But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
10. For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

In a society as ours where young men and women are ready to do the uncommon to get out of poverty and be rich enough to spend on vanities, and by which our economy has been pillaged, raped and robbed, we need a new motivation, sensible and realistic to help restore what's lost in our value system. Enough of grafts in private and public sectors, stealing, lying, kidnapping and murders just because we want to be seen as rich, let's deflate this evil sense of desperado and be ready to do all that's good and capable of bringing us into the prosperity we have been given in God as a people.

[My Offline Bible] 1 Timothy 6
17. Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, NOR TRUST IN UNCERTAIN RICHES, BUT IN THE LIVING GOD, WHO GIVETH US RICHLY ALL THINGS TO ENJOY... (emphasis mine)

We must check how desperate we are and start deflating it till we are able to think reasonably and rationally to discover the ways God has ordained to lift us and the people who look up to us out of poverty.

Good morning. It's a great week. Be inspired!
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