A broke man is a dangerous man

Money doesn’t buy you happiness and also money doesn’t translate to success. Success should be in the fulfillment of purpose and not in the pursuit of riches. Money can buy you things that can make you happy for a short period if your happiness is based on things, but true happiness comes from within oneself. There are more important things than money, like life, health, and time. Realistically, money is nothing but just a fuel to take you to your destination, and not the destination. The fuel you need is dependent on the distance you are required to move. Your destination is your purpose.  We should use money as fuel for us to fulfill our purpose and not make it the end game of our lives. Purpose is a responsibility, meaning that more money equals more purpose which also equals more responsibility at the same time. Joseph Murphy in his book Read Your Way to Riches puts it clear that, “Money is a symbol of God’s opulence, beauty, refinement and abundance”.

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The old saying suggests that money doesn’t change people it just reveals who they really are. To reveal is to discover more about something, not to know something for the first time. A poor kindhearted person will just be a rich kindhearted person when he or she has money. In other words, it’s true to say that money just magnifies who you already are and it does not change who you are. Money doesn’t give you identity or change your identity, it just gives you credibility.

I also believe that it’s better to be poor than to be broke because it is often easier to move comfortably where life has positioned you, than where circumstances have positioned you. There are states which we have no power to control or change and are meant to be the way they are for a specific reason and season. Acceptance works best when you are in the season of being poor literally, than when you are in the season of being broke. Life is in levels, sometimes you are at the mountain top, and sometimes you are at the valleys. Everything happens for a reason, but we are not supposed to be defined by our circumstances. The you in the season of abundance should still be the you in the season of lack.  A tree is only defined by its fruits, but it’s still also a tree in the fruitless season, it doesn’t identify as something else other than a tree when seasons change.

Dr. Myles Munroe said that “When the intention of a thing is not known, abuse is inevitable”. So, like everything was created or made with a purpose, money was not an exception. Money has a purpose, and when its true original purpose is not known, abuse is inevitable. Money is a tool, therefore we should not work for money instead money should work for us. Money is not chased, it’s attracted, by its purpose.

Literally, the value of a man is in what he gives, while the value of a woman is in who she is. This means that, when a man is in a position of lack, socially, he’s termed as not useful compared to a woman in the same position. Unlike a woman, biblically the role of a man is to give and not to receive and sometimes the tap dries up. So, as money plays a major role in the giving equation of a man, during the lack season, the dysfunctional state of a man makes him vulnerable and dangerous at the same time. Vulnerable in a way that he can trade his dignity for possessions and dangerous in a way that he can compromise on anything as long as it puts him back in the position of fruitfulness and abundance with less attention to the consequences.

James Allen in his book As a Man Thinketh says “A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy and prosperous being” Like I said money doesn’t buy you happiness, it’s also true to say that money can play a part in the pursuit of happiness. A man with options is a powerful man since money gives you options. Vulnerability comes when a man lacks options. Money can solve most of the life problems only to help a man focus on the most important things in life like discovering his true purpose. The lack of money acts as a distraction to the pursuit of purpose.

Logically being broke is a mindset because you become broke when you think you are. As a man thinks so he is. Fear is the strongest emotion, and as they say, what you fear is what you attract, it is true to say that to be broke mostly as a result of fear. They say that the fear of losing money is greater than the joy of being rich, and that’s why most people move with faith.

We all have the ability to fulfill our purposes, fear only comes when we start doubting our abilities and we make our reality. Being broke is a season and not an identity, it happens to either strengthen you or weaken you, elevate you, or put you down depending on your perspective. So instead of magnifying the mentality of being broke as a self-destruction button, we can instead transmute it to be a powerful motivator to work harder and find new avenues to change situations without falling into the deep sea of misery and dysfunction.