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A certain rich man once lived in the East with his family. He lost his life on his way back from one of his usual business trips…what a colossal loss!
Not too long after, all the wealth and glamour his immediate family once knew fizzled out –his wife never worked. The penury was as intense as the wealth they once enjoyed, even much more.
Bills piled up. Debts heaped. Hunger plagued. Diseases ravaged. And one after the other, the three children dropped dead: The woman was too poor to settle their hospital bills. She was herself sick to the point of death but she couldn’t afford to get a proper medical attention. So, she remained in their grand, but once glamorous house, waiting for death.
Her lawyer brother, who had been oblivious of her misfortune, came visiting one day. While they talked, he observed that some striking framed papers hung all around the living room. He took a closer look, only to receive the shock of his life. “…These are share certificates of choice multinationals in the country!” he managed to exclaim at last.
The illiterate woman had taken them for mere wall decorations. She did not know her husband –before his demise- had made investments that would suffice for their standard of living even if she never worked all her life. But due to her ignorance, they lived in penury amidst plenty.
Aren’t you another ignoramus?
Before Jesus died, He bought us shares so that we never have to lack a thing. He got us equity in the ‘Bank of Health’ so that we might dwell in health. He even went as far as making us decision makers in the ‘Prosperity Incorporated’ so that our souls prosper. So much more, He got us shares in the ‘Success Holdings’ that we might be the head and not the tail. So, be it the business, the profession, or in the academic sphere, you are not to fail –as long as you dwell in the house, named salvation.
Academic success is your heritage. You call the shot in the company it is produced. You are not to beg for it or slave for it; you are to work it into being.
There is no way you can be what you don’t know you are. You can never be a success when you don’t know you are one. You are not trying to be a success you are a success. He said, “I have said,“ Ye are [academic] gods…”” Let it settle in your mind because until you are in the heart, you can’t be on the earth…
To be continued
