God is ready to help you, if you let Him

My dear brothers and sisters, everybody wants to be rich. It’s a human tendency. It’s human nature. It’s a human desire. We all want to be rich. It is not a bad idea. God wants you to lead a peaceful and a happy life; to have riches and properties. It’s a blessing from God. God doesn’t want you to be poor and be a beggar on the roadside. While it may happen due to different reasons for many people to become poor, yet God is ready to lift them up and help them out. It may be due to a social reason, family reason, personal reasons, personal mistakes, or as a consequence of making wrong choices that people become poor. 

If you are ready to cooperate with God, He is ready to help you to lead a decent life. God always wants us to be happy. But if you are so preoccupied and obsessed with the idea of being rich, it can create many problems especially for those who are in a hurry to become rich. It is dangerous to hurry to become rich because that will make us fall into many kinds of sins. For example, bribery, lying, cheating in the business, hiding things, and taking shortcuts to get money such as engaging in wrong businesses (liquor shops). We go for wrong choices because we want to take a shortcut or go for the easy way to become rich. This is dangerous, my dear brothers and sisters. The Bible doesn’t support it. God doesn’t want us to do this because this is not His way. It is the wrong way—the way of the evil one. 

We read in the Word of God, Proverbs 28:20 “The faithful will abound with blessings, but one who is in a hurry to be rich will not go unpunished.” Those who are faithful, truthful, committed to the way of God and leading a holy life, God will bless you and make you abound with blessings. Your faithfulness will be rewarded. God doesn’t want you to suffer so badly and be tortured unless you voluntarily decide and welcome it. There are people who take the vow of poverty and lead a poor life. There are people who deny everything and go live in the wilderness. Otherwise, God wants to bless everyone. The faithful will abound with blessings but one who is in a hurry to be rich, take a shortcut, go for the easy way and try their best to get money by all means will not go unpunished. 

Let’s examine our conscience and see if we are in a hurry to become rich. If so, then there is a possibility we may try the wrong ways, the wrong means, the easy way, which may not be appreciated by the society and, also, not accepted by God. Let’s ask forgiveness for those moments and repent for all those sins.