Does God want you to be rich?
Let me ask you this instead: Does God want men and women to enjoy physical intimacy? People are sometimes made uncomfortable by this question, but I ask it to draw a parallel.
I cannot tell you with any certainty that your pleasure is one of God’s top concerns. But what I do know is that God wants men and women to live together as couples in the exclusive and holy covenant of mar-riage. It should not surprise us that a loving and gracious God would reward couples that follow His will with the greatest sensual pleasure available to humans. Similarly, I cannot assure you that God wants you to be rich. However, this I can tell you: God does want us to be obses-sively preoccupied with one another’s needs and wants, and if a good and loving God should reward those who follow his wishes with the incredible blessing of wealth, why should that surprise us either? It should not.
There is only one way to make money: finding out what other people want or need and then providing those things to as many of our fellow humans as possible. This is the only way to earn money, no mat-ter your occupation. In order to do this ef f ectively, you need to establish meaningful connections with your customers.
This is no accident:
God has designed money to be an instrument that both rewards and motivates us to do His will.
Earning a living requires making money, not taking money. We lit-erally bring money into existence by making another human being happier. As long as you haven’t robbed, defrauded, or coerced someone into giving you money, then I know that every dollar in your pocket was made by making people happy enough to reward you with their money. Maybe it was a boss, a customer, a client, maybe even a relative who gave you the money; I don’t know.
But I do know that they did so willingly because of what you did to earn it.
Have you ever wondered how so many companies can afford to offer money-back guarantees?
Shouldn’t they be worried that people will return the merchandise and want their money back?
Some might, but by far the majority of shoppers are happier after purchasing a wanted or needed product or service.
If we wanted our money more than the product or service, we wouldn’t have made the purchase in the fi rst place. Willful transactions are proof that you have created hap-piness by fulf i lling someone’s wants or needs.
Making money is not something we do when we think God is not watching. Making money is not the result of an occupation that we reluctantly undertake just to pay the bills.
Making money is not an unworthy and selfish activity, and you need not be ashamed of engaging in the making of money.
On the contrary, making money—when done in an honest manner in an open and transparent market place—is dignified and moral and the consequence of carrying out God’s will.
In other words: money is the consequence of working, not the goal. Profit comes from connecting with God’s other children and serving them.
We were in fact, created for this very purpose—to connect with one another.
I am the kind of person who talks to the people seated next to me when traveling. Conversation invariably turns to what we each do for a living. I have trained myself no longer to think of it as making a living, but as serving humanity. I ask people, “How do you serve humanity?”
When I ask this, people don’t tell me about their occupation. They don’t tell me they sell insurance, teach classes, or broker real estate deals. Instead, they tell me about the work they do at the soup kitchen, their pro bono clients, or the time they spend at the animal shelter.
While I commend their compassion, I explain to them that supplying other people with goods and services for pay and profit is no less an act of serving humanity than their volunteerism.
Chances are the work they do for profit does more total good than the few hours they spend volunteering.
The reward for a service rendered does not corrupt the service itself.
Money is what comes to us when we focus on serving all God’s other children. To think of your occupation and work as only “making a living” suggests that you are only interested in what you get out of work.
There is nothing wrong with wanting to make money, but make serving (the process of making money) your goal.
If you consider your work to be a calling, your way of serving humanity, then you both make money and serve.
This is the correct way to approach work. Work is your calling. Align your work with your values, align your values with your work, and you will see the innate purpose and worth of all compensated work.
The money is what happens as a result. It is your reward. But the reward does not negate the value or sanctity of the work. In fact, the money you make substantiates the fact that you have done good for others.
Making money proves to yourself and others that you are serving God’s other children.
To serve them, you must fi rst get to know them.
✔️ You must understand their wants and needs.
✔️ You must earn their favor and trust.
This is what making money is all about.
When I was 16, I started my first Business, which I remember as clearly as if it were yesterday. I had spent my time for years and spent all of it on this one business where I didn't earn Anything at all. I was in love with this business because I had no other way to serve my community than that.
My father once said something to me that I’ve never forgotten: “When you get older and have your own children, you will discover that the best thing somebody can do for you is to do something for your kids.”
When someone does something for your children, it is just as good or even better than if they had done it for you.
☺️ Don’t believe me?
Consider the opposite. Would you rather someone do something horrible to you or to your children? Most would say, of course, do it to me instead! But this works both ways, and most people would rather see goodwill and favors showered upon their children than themselves.
If this is all true, and I assure you it is, now consider our Father in Heaven. Think about how He feels when you do something to please His other children.
I believe He smiles upon those who smile on His other children. So we must all be kind and serve one another.
Loving other people is the key to both spiritual happiness and wealth.
Do not forget this: By loving and serving others, you are turning the key to unlock wealth and happiness.
There’s nobody who can do everything for everybody, but we all have our niche and our role to play. You may as well let others know how you can serve them.
Notice that the focus here is not on how to make more money, but how to better and more frequently serve more human beings.
You should not ask yourself how best to get rich, but rather, what do people around me need done?
How can I fill their needs or their desires?
How can I improve their lives?
And then you’ve just got to notify them of your ability to do that.
Focus on service, and wealth will follow.
How can I improve a lot of other people’s lives?
That’s the big question. The money follows . . . you don’t have to worry about that, it will take care of itself.
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