EFFORTLESS PROSPERITY
‘Passive income’ is the big word in today’s investing world. What can you do to ensure that you have a constant revenue stream without necessarily working a job to earn your paycheck? People turn to rental income, dividends from stock, royalties from what you have sold, and on so on as examples of passive income. And those who are able to increase their passive income are able to free themselves from the liability of having to work to earn a livelihood. But there is another way toward effortless prosperity mentioned in the Bible.
So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well (Matthew 6:31-33).
Man’s life here on earth gets reduced to a mechanical chasing after ‘food and clothes’- the perceived necessities of life. If you run hard enough after anything, you usually end up there one day or the other. You might not, but then the ‘experts’ advise you to enjoy the journey and develop character from your failures. But what no one tells you is that whether you make it or not in this life, one day you are faced with the bleak prospect of death and the associated meaninglessness thereof. But what they don’t tell you is that even when you make it, your excitement lasts but for a moment and you somehow still feel empty within.
There has to be more to life….something that makes you whole, gives you lasting fulfilment and ultimately makes sense. The only thing which can achieve that is seeking God, for the journey then takes you to core of your being. And for one who seeks, to prevent this journey from getting stalled, accepting Christ as one’s Savior becomes inevitable. Because only in Christ can one find his sins being washed away and access to God become real. A person who thereby seeks God prioritizes it over all else, for there is no other way of coming to God but to prioritize him. Interestingly, when one seeks God, the things of the world are given to him as well.
Seems unfair in a way. A person who seeks God ends up receiving worldly things he does not necessarily spend angst over. But then such a person is orienting himself to the tune of the universe and getting in sync with what was meant to be. The world simply responds to him with abundance. A normal person seeks the world, and might or might not receive it. A true disciple seeks God not the world, ends up receiving both. That’s effortless prosperity at its best.
