Are You a Producer or Consumer?

Are you a producer or consumer?

A group of beggars ravaged through the bins of the residents.   They were looking for the odd fishfinger, half eaten burgers, pizza or whatever scrap of food that was available to line their famished bellies.   The scraps from this area tasted better than the ones in other neighbourhoods.

After all, the palates of the occupants in this surburb led them to shop in the high end supermarkets where the food sold there was of the highest quality.  

There was however one beggar that was different.  

He knew spoilt kids had wealthy parents.   He knew that the rich had a habit of throwing away other items besides food.   The lifetime guarantee offered by merchandise bought for the spoilt offsprings who fussed over their excessive dinners, meant the beggars had no short supply of other scraps!  Every night, whilst the others fussed over remnants of food they could barely pronounce, this beggar went through the rubbish looking for valuables.

This one beggar found the odd vase, ornament or whatever item that no longer fitted in with the new décor of the residents’ homes.   He got down to washing and polishing these items making them as good as new.   He ate the scraps of the scraps left from the other beggars.

He kept his focus.

He started selling the items.  Soon, he had enough money to open a shop. The day came when he put away his beggar’s ‘cloak’ and put on the robe of a rich man.   His life as a beggar had ended.  

Meanwhile it was business as usual for the others still fussing over the now diminishing food scraps – the spoilt kids were growing up…!

This is actually an adaptation of a true story.   Are you a consumer or a producer?   You see the beggar with the vision was a producer.   He was carving his future.   The others were consumers.   They lived for the now and remained in that position.

What was the difference between the two?  MINDSET!

Your background, environment, friends, past and so on do NOT determine your future.   The Bible says that God has blessed us with ALL spiritual blessings (Ephesians 1:3).   It does not matter how dirty or degrading your past has been.

You have the power to change how your life will go.   You have the Holy Spirit. He is your Teacher and Guide to help you. 

Allow God to change your mindset.   Analyse your life through the agency of God’s Word.   Be who He says you are.  A victor, more than a conqueror, an overcomer.  All these are what He says in His Word.

Be a producer!

(Adapted from Prosperity Convention, hosted by CE Catford, May 25 2009)

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About The Author

Zoe

Zoe met Eze (Chuck) in the 14th year of what turned out to be an 18 year ‘journey’ with mental illness. They got married less than a year of meeting with Zoe fully knowing Chuck had a diagnosis of mental illness. In the 18th year, Chuck defied the odds of mental illness. A consultant psychiatrist signed him off the mental health system with a bill of NO MENTAL ILLNESS. The consultant was so amazed by Chuck’s astonishing recovery that he even questioned how Chuck was diagnosed with mental illness all those years before, in the first place! Today Chuck is free from medication, its dependency and hospitalizations. Zoe’s award nominated book, DEFYING THE ODDS, chronicles the highs and ‘lows’ of this journey. Zoe, often writing from the standpoint of a caregiver, clearly understands that mental illness does not only affect an individual challenged with the disease, but also families, marriages and society as a whole.

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