Enrichment through Love

In the recent past, I worked as a hired worker in a construction company and worked my way up to the position of site manager. I always enjoyed doing work related to erecting large buildings in open fields. Everything would have been fine if not for a small problem with my salary. It wasn't enough to cover current expenses. I had to live in constant debt, dreaming that someday this would all end, and we would "start living." My daughter knew that her dad never had money, and she was ashamed of this in front of her classmates. Sometimes I had to take out loans to pay off bank debts, and then spend several years paying back with interest what I received monthly for my work.

With such a situation, my friends for some reason perceived me as very rich, since I live and work in western Germany. But at home, I didn't even have my own personal work tools because I needed to buy something first. I would walk into a construction store like it was a museum, calling it the "Exhibition of German Economic Achievements" (VDNKH), examining and studying what I would be interested in working with if it were mine.

At some point in my life, the Lord introduced me to a real estate agent who wanted to renovate his house. I offered my services, and things started moving. Thanks to this person, my financial situation improved slightly, but the debts did not disappear.

Some time passed, and this real estate agent suggested that I open my own company, promising to provide me with work and improve my financial situation.

I was afraid to take this step and prayed a lot. The Lord answered my questions with approval and made it clear that I should go and not be afraid because He would be with me everywhere.

I took a step of faith and became a private entrepreneur. A new world of interesting opportunities opened up to me. All my small dreams of acquiring good tools were fulfilled very quickly, but I also began to lack time for personal life. The entire lifestyle changed, and everything began to revolve around the new company. Although throughout my new work I did not become rich, as there are so many more important needs around, I learned how to honestly earn good money. However, this required certain risks and investments. Knowing something does not necessarily mean living and having it.

The Lord fulfilled all my earthly dreams, which turned out to be not so cherished. But thanks to the new job, I was able to enrich my friends with what the Lord blessed me. I would ask them what they needed, and then realize their dreams to the best of my abilities. Reflecting on the past, I realized that if I had remained working where I was, I would still be fighting debts, dreaming that someday I would buy myself at least one good screwdriver. Now, many of my friends have excellent tools thanks to me, which I could not previously afford.

Becoming part of the Christian world, I did not know who I would grow up to be. My constant concern for the family's welfare limited my time, and I had to grasp many truths on the run and dream that something would change in life. I dreamed of having many spiritual friends whom we would love, but I did not have the time or knowledge to find them. All my attempts to become a friend ended at the first crossroads of opinions, after which we would politely part ways, and I would have to look for new friends, dreaming of someday meeting someone who would appreciate and unconditionally love me. Only in Jesus did I have Such a Friend who was faithful in everything and never left me. I walked through Bible verses about friendship and love like an exhibition of Christian relationship achievements from past centuries and could not imagine how to achieve this in my current situation.

But the Lord was preparing me for great changes and making me understand that there is a better life in Christ, calling me to take a step of faith and enter into a trading relationship with Him, becoming a private entrepreneur in the spiritual world. He promised to provide me with revelations about the great and inaccessible if I would cry out for them. Jesus also made me understand that He would enrich me if I dared to engage in a special kind of trade. I did not understand what this was, but I ventured such a step of faith and begged for agape love, not even understanding how my life would change and what awaited me. A new world of amazing revelations and interesting opportunities became accessible to me. My dreams of friends began to be fulfilled with amazing success, and in this friendship, I discovered new facets of love that I had not previously suspected. My entire lifestyle changed and began to revolve around this new love. I will be honest that during this time, the Lord enriched me with the promised love, and through me began to enrich all my friends. My habit of giving away everything valuable came in handy in distributing God's blessings, and I never learned to keep them secret from friends, sharing them at all times.

The Lord fulfilled all my dreams of loving friends, making me a loving friend as well. Now I no longer dream about them but love them and pray, rejoicing in their words and spirit of love, enriching them with my attitude and friendliness.

Love not only made me rich in love but also enriched through me all those who desire to be enriched by it. All my personal revelations became part of my friends' lives and continue to gift everyone who wants to obtain gold refined by fire.

My friends in love became God's blessing for me, which enriches and brings no sorrows. And for them, I became the same intermediate source of enrichment that loves at all times.

In Heaven, they decided to keep the doors of the love bank open for those who responded to the Faithful Witness's advice and became regular customers. Air, water, love — all of this fills the infinite Universe and becomes my Eternal possession, never ceasing in my life. I breathe, drink, get enriched by the gifts of God's grace, and buy them without gold and silver.

It is hard for me to imagine how I used to live without this trade, constantly in debt, dreaming only of somehow breaking even and not living on credit. But the Lord not only covered all my debts but also gifted me with gold tested by fire. This is truly a treasure that one is not ashamed to boast about.

By telling others about what I love, about what I understand it to be, about how much of it I have, I seem to be boasting about God and what I know and understand about Him within myself. For I understand that the Lord is performing judgment, mercy, and righteousness over me. In love for neighbors and friends, I become rich with special revelations about how this love loves at all times, how beautifully it is to possess it, what happiness it is to love.

What does a loving person lose? They lose the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life. It seemed that life without these qualities was impossible, but love fills the soul's needs so completely that you cannot imagine why you would need anything else when you can simply love.

And the commandment to love one another no longer seems to me to be from the realm of early Christian history. We love each other, and this gladdens the heart every day. And in this, there is something special, important, and truly valuable that can only be bought with Eternal Love.

Reflection Questions for this Chapter

1. Please read 1 Sam. 2:7; 2 Cor. 6:10; 9:8; Is. 13:12; Ps. 44:14; Rev. 3:17-18; John 13:34-35; Luke 12:16-21, 31-32; Prov. 10:4,22; 17:17; 18:24; Luke 16:9; John 15:12-13; 1 Tim. 6:6-8; Jer. 9:23-24; 33:2-3 in light of this chapter.

2. What did you understand from this chapter?

3. What important thought did you note for yourself in this chapter?

4. What other Bible verses came to your mind?

5. Did you understand what wealth is being discussed in this chapter?

6. Do you think the verse from Prov. 10:22 was written about you? Are you this blessing?

7. What wealth does gold refined by fire enrich me with?

8. What does it mean to "be rich toward God"? Luke 12:21.

9. Why does the Laodicean not know that he is poor, considering himself rich and prosperous?

10. Do you want to be rich in love? What do you need to do for this?

11. Have you experienced the state of soul where gold from the Faithful Witness made you truly rich?

12. What does Heavenly wealth do to the one who begins to acquire and possess it?

13. Does Jesus give us an example of how a person rich in love and God's blessings lives? Can we learn something from His life?

14. What do you think, will the 144 thousand be rich buyers?

15. Do our lessons help you become rich?