Ten Commandments for Financial Freedom


COMMANDMENT SIX








Don't be deterred by a crop failure

A cotton grower won't quit farming just because the boll weevil ruins one crop. Every farmer knows that he can expect good harvests overall-if he obeys the laws of agriculture.

If a friend betrays you, do you refuse ever to trust anyone else? Certainly not.

If you fall in love and are rejected, do you swear you will never love from that moment on? Again, the answer is no.

That's the same attitude you must have if, after you invest money, you get a crop failure.

Cecil B. Day nearly lost everything in 1976. In spite of the gloomy financial picture, he continued to pledge the first portion of his income to God. Suddenly, the harvest returned. In a span of only six years before his untimely death, Cecil Day built a chain of more than 300 motels. Today, Days Inns line the highways of America and other nations throughout the world.

In 1955, Paul J. Meyer, a millionaire at age 27, was wiped out financially by crooked business partners. Nonetheless, Paul never abandoned his habit of giving the first portion of his income to God. The Lord brought him through victoriously. By the time he died in 2009, Paul J. Meyer had given away tens of millions of dollars.

These men didn't stop sowing because of one crop failure. They invested their time and effort and resources-and they gained their reward.

The law of investment and reward, of sowing and reaping, is as reliable as any truth of God. Obedience to this law over the long term is the key to financial security.

Don't be deterred by a crop failure.