The Key of the FLOWING RIVER
Finally, my dear reader, I want you to realize that just as success comes, it can be taken away from you if you don’t know how to maintain it. You have to know how to keep bringing success and being successful. Many become successful but never remain successful because they don’t understand the principle of the “flowing river”.
We know that the reason why a river remains ever fresh is because it flows. It’s not stagnant. Stagnant water smells. It spoils. Many people's success have become smelly because it does not flow. You have to allow your success flow otherwise you will soon turn it into a failure.
You might be wondering, “What does he mean?” This is what I mean: Learn to give back if you want the streams of success to keep flowing in your life. When you let go, you create room for more to come in. Those who don’t give back, never grow up in accomplishments.
You are not rich because you have several millions in your account. You become rich when your million start to affect other people’s lives positively. It’s all about impacting lives with your wealth. It’s often said; “if you eat alone, you will die alone”.
While that statement might sound to you like a resolution of defeat or a consolation of a poor man, you have to look at it from the other angle -from God’s angle. In the Bible, we are told that “there is he that scatters, yet increases…”1
If you want to increase, you have to scatter first. You have to give. You have to be a blessing to others around you. Stingy people never get to the heights. If they manage to get there, they soon start crumbling. Most of the foundations we see and hear about around the world today are owed by people who understand this principle. They know within themselves that “if I must get richer, I must keep reaching out to others”.
That’s what I mean by the flowing river. Start cultivating the habit of blessing others even in your low estate. That’s what will take you to the high estates of life.
While I was a student in the university, the Holy Spirit said to me one day “you’re not to keep anything you have, let it flow to others, that’s the only way to enjoy endless flows”. It makes a whole lot of sense. It is often said that “the pipe that allows water to flow through it will never lack water itself”.
Start thinking beyond yourself and start thinking about others. Start affecting lives. Start influencing others. Start reaching out. That’s the key to sustainable blessing.
SCRIPTURAL REFERENCE
1. Proverbs 11:24