There was this one guy that I have had the privilege of observing up close for several years.

He is hardworking, driven, and successful.

Naturally, his success attracted all sorts of people to him.

Most of them came to him seeking financial help, support, friendship, employment, or simply familiarising themselves with him so that, in case they needed his help one day, he would be there for them.

He is naturally very stingy; it does not take a genius to figure that out, but he is also a user.

One of those guys who you will be around and your life would not show any improvement in twenty years.

I always wondered how he does it. I also wonder why people stay around him regardless of how impoverished they become after flocking around him. I cannot point to one person who has made a success of himself in life and destiny as a result of being with this person. Not one.

It is sad to see.

Apostle Paul said something I love and which I practice. He said, “Being poor but making many rich”. 2 Corinthians 6:10

How can people be around you and remain this poor? Are you not seeing it, or are you deliberately turning a blind eye to it? Your staff members are collecting a salary so low that they could barely feed their children, not to talk of owning cars and houses.

Your staff members would reach out to me for financial support from time to time, and I would meet their needs out of the surplus that the Lord has blessed me with, and then they get talking about you, something asking me to intervene on their behalf to discuss their welfare and other benefits.

I would do this in good faith, and you would give me that line: “I am expecting some money; we had done a deal, and the transaction has not clicked. As soon as it clicks, I plan to buy my senior staff members a car each and also arrange accommodation for them somewhere. I have plans; I am just waiting for things to come together”

That line that you have used for years while you changed your own cars annually and lived like a king with your family

So many of your staff members left empty-handed after you had used and sapped them of all that they had to offer while feeding them false hope. The ones that stayed with you have nothing to show for it except their desperation to have a job at all costs and a continuous promise they give themselves and their wives that the moment they get a better offer, they would abandon ship.

Why would you allow your side of the divide to become Egypt?

On my side of the divide, the poor had become rich in the last few years.

You knew where you met me, that very first day we sat down to have a conversation somewhere in Magodo. You were already rich then, were you not? And I was not so rich at the time.

As days went by, I made more people rich than I can ever count, but your own people continue to lack and languish.

Your soul is not liberal, sir; this is why it has not been made fat

You are more concerned about figures than destinies.

How can you be comfortable being the only rich person in the midst of so many poor people who were drawn to your light in fellowship? If your light does not light others up and if your salt does not make the life of others sweet, what sort of light shall we call it? What sort of salt is it?

There is one who gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want. Proverbs 11:24

It is ironic that this guy does not see how poor he is

One rich man in the midst of so many poor people is a very poor man.

It is better to be poor and make others rich than to be rich and make others poor.

The more I make others rich, the richer I become; The more I make others poor, the poorer I become.

Ironically, this man boasts that this is the wealthiest he has ever been since he started making money, and his staff members are crying that this is the poorest they have ever been in their adult lives.

A man whose tithe is the largest in church and whose offering is the fattest in church, while his staff members are the poorest, is not pleasing God. God would prefer that we improve the lives of those around us than build edifices that would one day be no more.

I remember helping this man out so many years ago with the hope that he would get it.

I bought a car for each of his senior staff members when their complaints reached my ears about their suffering. I thought he would take a cue from my gesture (I tried to teach by setting an example), but his words were, “Sir, thank you for helping out. I was planning to do the same, but there was a transaction I did; I was waiting for the funds from it to sort out the things you sorted out. yeah”

I set up some other staff members in business and helped many others financially, so that they could feed their families and be comfortable.

I did this not as a duty but out of love, but the man whom they work for and labour under refused to see their plight.

Isn’t it funny that on paper you seemed richer than I am, but my staff members have never reached out to you before to ask for a penny or for any form of support or help, while your staff members are always in my DM and flocking to my house asking for help

He says to them, “You must eat what you hunt; live off your meagre salaries. I am feeding off what I hunt; I live off my fat income. He forgot that there is a David principle to wealth and leadership.

But all the evil men and troublemakers among David’s followers said, “Because they did not go out with us, we will not share with them the plunder we recovered. However, each man may take his wife and children and go.” David replied, “No, my brothers, you must not do that with what the LORD has given us. He has protected us and delivered into our hands the raiding party that came against us. Who will listen to what you say? The share of the man who stayed with the supplies is to be the same as that of him who went down to the battle. All will share alike.” David made this a statute and ordinance for Israel from that day to this. -1 Samuel 30:22-25

I remember praying some years ago that God should make those who are around me richer than I am. I was tired of being surrounded by poor people who look up to me to survive.

Today, I am happy to announce that those same people whose debts I used to pay and whose families I used to feed are very rich. It is good to be a light that can make others shine and not a light that draws the light from others while leaving them dim.

PS: This is a letter to all the bosses out there. A labourer is worthy of his wages. God hates a faulty scale. Please do better, especially regarding the welfare of your staff members.

-GSW-