Matthew Yao

A Billionaire's Advice

If one of the richest people in the world gave you some advice, would you listen to him?

Matthew Yao, a young entrepreneur, sat down with Philip Ng, asking him to share some advice for his
friends and followers on Instagram. Philip and his brother, Robert, are worth $12.1 billion as
controllers of the Far East Organization, Singapore's largest private landlord and property
developer.

Obviously, Ng is very successful in the business world - a billionaire.

So what is his advice?

Yao, in his posted video on Instagram asked Ng, his mentor: "Uncle Philip, to all the young people
watching this, what do you think is the one piece of advice that you would give them?"

"What I've discovered is that all of us are broken," said Ng. "We all have a missing piece, and for
me, I discovered that the missing piece was God through Jesus Christ."

Ng continued: "I was always in search for a better life, a better purpose, a better me, a better
everything. I was just looking at all the wrong things, but when I realized there is no better me
or better things without Jesus, then it all snapped into place. Maybe we have to look deeper. I
treasure (my faith) more than anything so I just wish for everyone to have that peace and joy. It
sure beats a lot of money and material things that you may have."

Matthew Yao weighed in on Ng's advice: "With movies like 'Crazy Rich Asians" glorifying wealth,
exuberance and excess and Hollywood media polluting our minds., we are all too easily sidetracked
and too easily derailed from the truth and what is important in this life. But the truth is, we are
all BROKEN people and we all have a missing piece in us. We try to fill that missing piece in the
pursuit of power, money, popularity, sex, alcohol, drugs, achievement or success, and among other
things as well. [Many] have come to the same conclusion that THERE IS MORE to this life than just
these temporary things, as fleeting as these pleasures may be. That missing piece, my friends, is
Jesus Christ."

Was that the advice you were expecting?

I don't know what other advice Ng and Yao might give, but on this major point, they are right on
target!

Listen to Jesus: "Take heed and beware of covetousness, for one's life does not consist in the
abundance of the things he possesses" (Luke 12:15).

Rather, the truly abundant life, and even more - eternal life - is found in Jesus Christ. What
makes this life truly abundant are the spiritual blessings that are found in Jesus (Ephesians 1:3),
blessings like forgiveness from sin (Ephesians 1:7), peace that passes all understanding
(Philippians 4:6-7), inexpressible joy (1 Peter 1:8), and the hope of eternal life in heaven (1
Peter 1:1:3-4).

All of these spiritual blessings are available to us in Christ because Jesus gave His life for our
sins so that we can be reconciled to God, find life's true purpose, and receive the gift of eternal
life (2 Corinthians 5:17-21; Romans 6:23).

God will save and give the abundant, eternal life to those who place their faith and trust in Jesus
(Acts 16:30-31), turn from their sins in repentance (Acts 17:30-31), confess Jesus before men
(Romans 10:9-10), and are baptized (immersed) into Christ for the forgiveness of sins (Acts 2:38).
God will continue to cleanse from sin those who continue to walk in the light of His Word (1 John
1:7-9).

What's the most important thing in life? I think the richest man in Singapore speaks the truth when
he says that the most important things in life are not things; it's Jesus.

Are you listening? Will you submit your life to Jesus?

-- David A. Sargent

* Information gleaned from "Singapore's richest man says 'missing piece was God through Jesus
Christ'" by Caleb Parke of Fox News, www.foxnews.com and Matthew Yao's Instagram post.