God's Wealth

An ancient question surfaces in the minds of countless men and women—does God truly need our money? Yet through the ages, temples and institutions have been built upon endless methods of accumulation. We have been taught that what is given is given to God himself. And further, that abundant donation will bring manifold return from God. As if some primordial lottery ticket—for which people wait, hoping to claim their prize in the life beyond death.

But perhaps the truth lies elsewhere. It may be that awakening—that very promise—can kindle within the soul in this very life. Perhaps even now the world holds countless "illumined beings" whose voices are drowned beneath the weight of rigid religious dogma. Ages pass in waiting, and institutions turn that waiting to their account, intoxicated with money and power.

Perhaps the true message is this: rather than gazing toward the invisible and waiting, awaken to your own divinity. Become yourself the change you wish to see in the world. Whatever else may be, an invisible current still whispers within the heart—the time for awakening is now. God desires no one's coin—what he seeks is the woken heart. The true gift is to renounce the delusions within and stand forth in your own luminous truth.