Prosperity!!!

Saturday night was very interesting. Had a dinner with an old friend and we both decided to see a movie in the cinema after the dinner. Ain't a movie freek but Jerry forced it on me. I thought that was going to be a waste of time, because that is the misconception I've got about die hard fan of movies and those who love to go to the cinema. I was disappointed in my school of thought about these set of people because, I learnt a lot from the movie we saw, although it was a comic-tragedy. The movie was about Mr. Anthony Lace who was a wealthy and affluent man, but later become poor. What really got me was the main reason why he fall from glory like a pack of wood.

The reason his not only because he spend carelessly, but also that while he was rich he fail to build systems around him that will ensure continuity wealth and riches for a very long. Mr Anthony developed an illness that result from consumption of too much of junk foods. Not only that, he also has marital issue which led him to divorce his wife after 2 years of marriage and without a child.

Can we say Mr. Anthony Lace is a prosperous man?

Maybe because he has a lot money.

Well, here is the lesson I learnt from this movie.

Prosperity is beyond wealth or riches. It can mean when you have something (not only money) in abundance backed up with the ability to replenish or ensure a system of continuity of that which you have or be able to retain it for a long time if not forever . A wealthy man should not be tagged wealthy if his wealthy can disappear at the snap of a finger or if he can not replenish that which he has. Some people have lived or are living a life which is the same as that of Mr. Anthony Lace. They thought prosperity is all about having finances so they refuse to focus on the other aspects of their lives. That is why Mr. Antho is wealthy, but not healthy. That is why he is a rich man but a careless husband who later lose his wife. He is prosperous financially, but lacking maritally and medically. True prosperity is the one that covers all areas of a man's life. The misconception about prosperity is that, it only has to do with finance alone which is not the truth. These are five area in which complete a man's pprosperity

inancial prosperity

Medical prosperity

Relational prosperity

Prosperity of your mind.

Spiritual prosperity.

So Mr. Antho only have one of these then he thinks he has gotten it all. Then he latter spent his money on his defeciency. He has financial prosperity, but lack in the rest areas, which he then paid for not building is medical, relational, and prosperity of the mind too.

He failed to invest on his health, his mind and his marriage.

The concluded part of the story is that Mr. Anthony spent all he has on the illness including selling his property until nothing was left for him and this led to the divorce in his marriage, because his wife couldn't hold on anymore. Unfortunately, this serious illness ended is life, and he died like he was nobody.