Slavic Christians and wealth

The rat race never stops.

No matter what you pursue, it’ll consume you if you place your identity in it.

Having worked with thousands of Slavs who have “made it,” I can testify that too many are still feeling “not good enough.”

Marriages are the most vulnerable they’ve been, children and spouses are hungry for love and attention, bodies bear preventable stress, and churches are getting emptier.

Why?

Because we’ve bought the lie that happiness=success.

We’ve taken our eyes off Jesus and have placed them on money, fame, influence, power, and pleasure.

The result?

Wealthy, miserable Christian’s who are trying to fill a cross-shaped hole with everything but Him.

We’ve forgotten where our value lies.

We’ve forgotten the bloody price that was paid for our lives.

We’ve forgotten why we exist and the purpose we were created to fulfill.

Until we get back to our simple roots of loving the Lord our God with our hearts, minds, souls, and strength, and doing the same to our neighbor, we will look good on the outside but be empty within.

I often see this when serving our Slavic Christian community, and I used to do it myself.

We were raised by spiritual orphans, parents rooted in legalism, many who still believe that their worth is based on the ministries they perform in church, the amount they tithe, missionary trips they travel to, and how many times a week they attend church—instead of having a loving relationship with their Savior.

The result?

They expect their children to do the same in and out of their homes.

They tell their children they “owe them” for bringing them into this world instead of discipling their children to thrive in Christ independently from them.

They verbally beat their children down and tell them, “they’re not enough until they accomplish A, B, or C to be loved and accepted.”

Worst of all, these parents forgot that the blood on the Cross was FREE and was meant to COVER their filthy, self-righteous works that came short of God's glory.

We could never buy our own salvation through our actions—if we read our Bibles, we’d remember that.

We were meant to accept His gift FREELY and let it transform us to become His tangible presence on Earth for the world to know Him through it, not push people away from that freedom.

So where’s the gap between “knowing Scripture” and living it as His royal children here on Earth?

That is determined by whether or not Scripture was accepted as God’s Word by each soul to believe that they are adopted into God’s family by faith instead of their works.

Sadly, that’s what many haven’t experienced yet.

Many are still good servants, but have never become redeemed children. Until the mental and heart shift happens, the exhausting spiritual striving will continue.

Dear one, if you’re tired of being emotionally and spiritually unwell, please reach out to me. I’ll share the hope and security I found in Him that goes beyond this life. I’ll help you find the freedom that gave me liberty from chasing the temporary, to thriving as His princess on Earth