I have chosen the poor to be rich in faith. Do you understand this? Have you observed this for yourself? Troubles come to all, but the rich have enough money to buy their way out of it, and they can proceed with their life as if nothing had happened. The poor know that they cannot be their own salvation and when troubles come they have no resources available to deal with them other than to trust in me. By this method the wealthy avoid opportunities for growth and development and the poor become rich in faith. Do you want to be rich enough to buy your way out of trouble?

What do you see as your basic identity? Does being a child of God seem too simple? Do you feel the need to embellish this with group identification, academic and other achievements, titles, offices, successes, skills, and honors? Be careful. Anything you attach your identity to you must defend at all costs, because you must regard an attack on it as an attack on the essence of your being. These are not false or bad things, but they are not the real you either. Don’t you find it tedious to be around those who are so insecure they must spend their time proving they are somebody?

Have you heard that you can’t buy happiness? This has become such a mindless cliché that people do not ask the next obvious question. If you can’t buy happiness, then how do you get it? If the pursuit of happiness is a fundamental right then how can you obtain it? The first premise above implies that it lies outside the realm of commerce. I have a destiny for you that is as unique as your DNA. I don’t intend to keep it a secret from you but you won’t find it if you don’t look for it.