Never All Yours

Monday Motivation: Never All Yours.

A wise billionaire once said, the first million you make maybe yours, but the rest is kept in your trust for the society. The actual fact, however, is that, you don't need to get the first million before you know and live like whatever comes in isn't ever all yours, even if it's a dollar.

We are stewards of the resources of the earth. Since the day man fell in the garden, and his sustenance became reliant on his own strength and sweat, inequality became human race's undoing.

It is clear that we have different strengths, and we can only sweat at different things to produce what will fill the earth. Not every sweat will produce at the same level. Not every hard work pays same way. And what value we place on different 'sweats' differs. What food a person's sweat will earn isn't what another person's sweat will earn. This is the fundamental cause of inequality and disparity in wealth owned, barring laziness and slothfulness.

It tells us that, what was made for all will be accessed only by few. Many will have what don't originally belong to them because their sweat earned it, many will have food they won't need to eat and so waste it. Many will sweat and still not eat well because stronger and better positioned people reach the food source faster and with better equipment.

But God who made all these for us all to enjoy didn't plan inequality. The resources of the earth is for all...

Ecclesiastes 5
9. Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.

God wants equality, but selfishness from both the rich and the poor won't let equality ever happen.

Some will take advantage of those with strength to labour for others by withdrawing their hands. Many with strength won't work to capacity since the profit won't be all theirs. These two phenomenons are the down side of the economic system that are based on communist and socialist ideologies.

It is the same with capitalism, where the opportune can take advantage of the worker to get it all for himself while keeping the worker in servitude to keep the wealth flowing. The end point is that wealth tilts towards those who can access the limited advantage. Inequality remains a problem hard to tackle in our fallen world.

But does God want it that way? The answer is No. God's desire is that there will be equality. We may not be able to achieve that perfectly in our day but I'm sure when and where He rules, equality will be achievable.

And it begins with knowing that all we have can't just be what's meant just for us alone. We must understand the skewed system that favors inequality by which because we don't have same spiritual, mental, social or physical strength to work, that our different hard work will produce differently and some will have more than they need and others will have less than they need.

God demonstrated His equality mentality in the distribution of Manna in the Old Testament, he who gathered much had no left over, and he who gathered less had no lack.

2 Corinthians 8
13. For I mean not that other men be eased, and ye burdened:

14. But by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want: that there may be equality:

15. As it is written, He that had gathered much had nothing over; and he that had gathered little had no lack.

This is why we ought to develop that mentality that we aren't the owner of all that we have. We must always have humanity at heart. We are responsible for the weak among us, even if we won't care much about the lazy and the indolent, who won't cook what they caught in hunting till it rots and they go hungry.

We must understand that whatever we have, was given for our distribution and communication. Our job will therefore include locating the vulnerable and the needy among us who also can feed and be clothed from our sweat, opportunities and better positions.

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;

18. That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate;

19. Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.

If you believe in Christ, you'll know that in the last day, one of the speeches will be, "I was naked, and hungry and you clothed and fed me". When we do this, we do it unto Christ, who we call our Lord.

It's never going to be all yours that comes to you!

Good Morning to you.

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