Many a times the Bible talks about wealth and riches. Is there a difference? Yes! Riches are tangible! Wealth is more of an intellectual factor according to some old translations of the bible if viewed from the Greek interpretations.
If Psalm 112 verse 3 states wealth and riches are in the house of the righteous, it means that for a righteous man, both the tangible and intellectual reside.
This is both the ability to make money and the money itself! Are you righteous? This is for you.
How is your intellectual faculty? Do you call yourself broke just because money has vanished temporarily? Do you misuse your lips saying you are ‘Omuntu wa Wansi’?
How’s your general thought space? Because, if you take yourself as disadvantaged despite your background, do not forget that as a man thinketh, so is he!
If you feel your finances haven’t hit that mark yet, begin to walk as a rich man or woman already! Walk by faith, believe what God has said about you in His word, in Isaiah 60, and in Psalm 112.
Hold onto that word tightly believing it until it manifests in the physical.
Moses Mukisa; an international motivation speaker says that some of the steps we take to recalibrate our intellectual faculty are; reading financial material (books about finances), getting into rich spaces or places and killing poverty reflexes.
Some material available includes Straight Forward Financial Growth by Moses himself, The richest man in Babylon, Rich dad poor dad, The Bible itself and so much more!
Since before 2018, I had already spotted me some rich places such as Café Javas (as I tried to implement Moses’ advice). Affording that place way back in my late teens was a miracle. Moses’ wisdom instead nudged my appetite to go there more often.
It seemed impossible spending 30k on a meal and drink. That’s airtime and data for a month, or a shoe with extra change or a pretty dress for a sister or 300 pancakes!…
…Those used to be my thoughts.
But if I take that amount to Jeff Bezos or Bill Gates, what is it even if it was in dollars? Someone cracked a joke that a million dollars can be stolen from any of these two and they won’t notice it went missing.
Somehow, since as the bible says that I am rich, these gentlemen paint a life that portrays how my life ought to look like.
I have gone back to Javas a couple of times and all my friends call me the Café Javas Ambassador because my presence in all locations has become such commonplace.
Anyway, just to confirm the killing of poverty reflexes, it has finally come alive in me, the counter effect. I see in me some symptoms of wealth reflexes and I know you might have none now, but examine yourself.
One of the characteristics of wealthy people is that they hail in comfort and convenience. If you find your mind always resisting an easy and much convenient and comfortable life, then you are broke.
In many of our African families you’ve heard things like, ‘Do you think money grows on trees?’, ‘Those things are for whites’ ‘Growing up we had to fetch water miles away, and so you too must’ ‘We went to school on foot’ These always have made us think we deserve to suffer first in order to live or have the next meal.
If you find yourself justifying any of these reasons, then poverty has been engraved in the flesh of your mind. Dairy Milk was made for everyone, supermarkets are to make our lives easier, taps exist today and there are vehicles and means available to convey us wherever we so desire to go!
An easy life doesn’t mean a life void of hard work! This is to all those thinking I’m writing to justify their laziness. It rather means being able to get whatever you want, wherever you are, at whatever time you desire.
In some African homes, there are both indoor bathrooms and outdoor bathrooms. Many run to the local outside ones where you need to find a tap meters away and then carry a big basin to a wooden-doored room not bigger than 2 square meters.
I know it is perhaps the way, we as Africans were brought up… but it’s stuck in our minds to embrace incovenience.
One’d prefer to use the indoor bathroom on the other hand, a shower stands ready to serve water, and one doesn’t need to be hit by the 6am rain in case they desire to shower very early.
Carrying basins of water from miles away to cook or shower takes an extra 10 minutes. Footing to a school takes extra hours (if it’s far) and saving the cash don’t matter if one always show up late. What does it say about the rich? They save a lot of time by their lifestyle. That’s a reflex embedded in them. Redeeming time is a characteristic of the rich.
Furthermore, most members of the household, instead of brushing their teeth via the available sinks go on to brush from somewhere and spit in the gutter as they hold a jerry can to rinse their mouths!
This is all inconvenient to the rich and to this era we are living in and I’m sure this is still so common in Uganda.
Back at home, the bath lacks a sink, but my wealth reflex makes me brush and use the flushing toilet instead of saying ‘we have no sink’… To keep it convenient, I was creative enough to turn something that was not, into something I needed.
These examples might offend some, but they are one of the best there is. Other examples of poverty reflexes include;
Always paying little units via the electricity meter just to last a day or a week, never having the fuel gauge dial on F (Full), always looking at the right side of that menu while at a fancy restaurant, finding the price tag before you buy an item even if you want it so badly, beeping others and asking them to call you back, always giving your friend a heads up saying, ‘the bill is on you’ when you choose to go out etc.
All you need to do is to be on the other side of the coin for all these situations, in order to turn them into your wealth reflexes!
Challenge to you is; what wealth reflex can you adapt in whichever situation you are in? I decided to use the toilet when the sink wasn’t in context. What about you? Let me know how you will repent from any of those poverty reflexes you’ve experienced?
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