All of us are dreaming and praying to be wealthy someday. But all of us have a different perspective on what is wealth. Some people say that wealth is always about financial success, but some people's perspective of this is about being happy with what you have and with the blessing that you get. But what is the real meaning of wealth? Who has the right definition of it? Is it totally about financial stability and success or is it about being happy and content with what you have?
By the world’s standards, you can be considered wealthy if you have lots of money, money that you can buy everything that you want. It is so deceiving because this standard of wealth makes people so aggressive and greedy in achieving their goals to be wealthy. Instead of being happy and content with what a person has, he will always look for more and more and more to be called wealthy. If our way to measure the wealth of a person is by checking his financial success and material things that he has, we are using the wrong way. Wealth can be measured by how people respond and preserved whatever they have and by seeing the joy and contentment in their faces and life.
Being and having true wealth in life is not only about contentment and happiness, but it is also about how you will use whatever you have to be a blessing to other people. Part of being rich and wealthy is your discipline and having the heart to share all your blessings with the needy. True wealth is more than financial success; it is also a blessing for you to be generous.
Not all people are believing that when you share your blessings and whatever you have, God will continue to pour out His blessings for you. If you are financially stable or successful and you have lots of things that you never needed, but you choose to share them with other people and you give them with a cheerful heart, you will feel full of joy and it motivates you to change your perspective about being wealthy. Maybe some people are more believing that they don’t need to share their blessing with other people because they thought it can be their loss, but it’s not. It is also not a wise perspective about being wealthy, it is called selfish.
True wealth is being contented, happy, and a blessing to others. Unfortunately, only a few people are believing in this, and more are believing in the other perspective. But it is all our choice and decision in which perspective we want to believe.
In the eyes of the people, they can easily say who is wealthy or not. If they saw a man with a nice and expensive car, they are confidently saying that man is wealthy. But in the eyes of God, He knows who is truly rich and wealthy. It is those people who enjoy their resources full of joy and contentment, not those people having more and still looking and wanting more and more. God will bless those who are not greedy and not tight in holding their blessings.
Remember, God allows you to be wealthy and stable in life for a reason. He let you experience being wealthy because He wants you to learn how to give generously and how you will use His blessing for you to be fruitful in life and to be a blessing to others. Yes, God gives us wealth to enjoy life, but it is also the reason to live our lives full of meaning and give a good influence on other people’s lives. If you will learn to be generous and willingly share your health with others, joy, happiness, and contentment will follow. You are truly wealthy if you have these things. Don’t be afraid to share your blessings with other people, it makes you wealthier and richer. True wealth is your decision to be content and to choose to enjoy whatever you have with happiness and joy. Being greedy and not content will always be not considered part of true wealth.