An Excerpt

A man was driving through the country one day when his car broke down. He was in front of a country farmhouse and while someone was working on it, he decided to join an old farmer who was sitting in a rocking chair on the front porch and rocking back and forth, with a straw in his mouth. Just to make conversation the man asked, "Hey, how's the wheat growing?"

The farmer, without any change of expression, said, "I didn't plant any wheat this year. I was afraid there would be a drought."

"Well," asked the man, "then how's the corn growing?"

"Didn't plant any corn either. Afraid there would be too much rain and wash the seed away."

"Well, then, how's the cotton growing?" the man asked.

"I didn't plant any cotton this year. Afraid the boll weevil would come and eat it all up."

The man, somewhat perplexed, finally asked, "What did you plant?"

The farmer leaned back and said, "I didn't plant nothin' this year. I just played it safe."

It is absolutely essential that we become financially literate before we begin taking the risks inherent in investment. The Word tells us that a fool and his money are soon parted. Money without financial literacy is money soon gone.

But "no investment" is nearly as bad as "foolish investment." We've been playing it safe far too long. We have been dreamers to some extent. We've even been a little lazy. Many of us have learned to confess prosperity scriptures every day but we don't actually have a passion to do anything more than talk. We have to eventually do something. I cannot overemphasize the importance of learning what you are doing before you do it but without a passion to act on your knowledge, it is useless. Do something, even if all you are doing is reading some books.

A vision without action is just a hallucination. Action without a vision is random activity. It takes a combination of passion and discipline to accomplish anything. Napoleon said, "Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in."

From the book Becoming A Millionaire God's Way by Dr. C. T. Anderson