Last year when I wrote, "Should Christians use the Law of Attraction?" I received hundreds of emails. Within that time I have made many new Christian friends. However, one thing I noticed about our correspondence is that many of them ask the same basic question, "Isn't it a sin to want more? Shouldn't I be happy with my lot in life?"

Every indication that I have observed tells me no, it is not a sin to want and or attain more. The key for Christians, or any other religious group, is to keep things in perspective. A person with strong religious beliefs must first "seek the Kingdom of God" above all else, but that does not mean that a person must live in poverty to be spiritual.

Some people in poverty spend many hours daily thinking about material things, as opposed to thinking about spiritual concerns. And that is unavoidable. The world that we live in mandates that money is the means of exchange. Because of that, our very survival demands a certain amount of available cash.

Every religious text known likens man to God. We are told that God created man in his image. What exactly does that mean? God doesn't have a body, legs and arms. How then are we created in his image? We are created in his image because God is a creator, and we have the same ability.

Think about all of nature. The plants, the animals, the insects, all of nature multiplies and grows, but it does not create. Only humans do that. A bird may instinctively build a nest, but that is not creation. Creation utilizes a mind. The human mind is what sets us apart from all the rest of creation.

When we look closely at nature we find that God creates everything in abundance. Poverty does not exist in nature. Plant life is abundant. A tree grows as big as a tree can grow. And that same tree releases seeds that produce even more trees. One wheat seed doesn't return one wheat plant. One single wheat seed grows and blossoms with hundreds of seeds on it.

Or think about the universe. It too is abundant. In fact, it is an abundance we can't even intellectually comprehend. Science tells us that the universe has no beginning and no end. Furthermore, the universe is continually expanding. Nature is the ultimate demonstration of God's creative abundance.

So why is it that we as humans, one of the highest creation of God, believe that it is noble to live in poverty? Why are humans singled out of all of creation to live without abundance? We single ourselves out. Our gift of the mind, our own reasoning factor, is the reason why many of us live barely scraping by.

When we think back to the story in the bible of Adam and Eve, God placed at their disposal everything that was available. He held nothing back from them. God's original purpose for man was that he live in abundance.

Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, "It is a sin to be poor." At first hearing that you may be taken back a bit. I know I was. But as I looked closer at all the evidence, and as I personally saw the way nature automatically responds, I must conclude that he is right.

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