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All seats of authority are from God, but any government is of
the people.
Many say, “Money talks…” but, money lies
the lie of convenience in selfish delusion to the payee with cruelty done to the debtor. What is money for if not to reduce
the miseries of our fellow human beings? We use money unwisely to divide the purposes of marriage and family, the integrity
of a man with his wife to care for their children no matter race, creed, religion or social status, in efforts to minimize
hardship by attempts to reduce populations. There can be no honest overseeing respect for “all created equal”
when deciding what individuals and groups may flourish in living and who may lose their lease on life “for the better
good”.
God
first, then people, then profits - not the other way round is the only way for everyone to thrive in the world of humanity.
God, people, and profits, in that order, provides for a simultaneous achievement in unity of all three.
Any other variation of order casts our intentions
into sequential requirements where the unity of now is lost to yesterday and tomorrow because true class is not dependent
on the materialistic security of money. Everything; including marriage, eternal salvation, shielding regard for the lives
of unborn children, and respect for loyalty in passion becomes negotiable when money is considered the core of viability.
Faith
in God’s leading to apply our concerns in providing quality products and services respects His integrity in our integrity
to appropriately care for our spouse, family, and fellow citizens – again, always in that order. Our endeavors to produce
better sustenance, upkeep, securities, and satisfaction are not of money, but of devoted steadfast loyalty in our holding
to who we are in our decisions with our loved ones. Calculated values look for excuses while true love needs no excuse.
Whether we are paid well in what we do, or for some reason are not paid at all, our expressed love for God in
expressing our love for what we do, to benefit those to whom we are committed is the faith-in-action God asks of us to give.
This is why faith in God’s leading, sidetracked in priority to make money, stops short of God’s leading in living
and diverts our natural faithing into the unnatural desires in the making of money for the sake of the love of money. 1st
Timothy 6:10 says, For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from
the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
So,
if it is assumed that money is the expression of love, and 1st John 4:8 says, He that loves not knows not God; for God
is love. then, it follows in perverted logic that God is money, or money is God. If that were the case, then stealing
money, being rich, buying anyone we choose whatever they desire, and living the high life of opulence and wealth would be
the full expression of God’s will in Christ’s salvation... “If you love me you will buy me things.”
(though gifts for honest reasons are a proper use of money). Obviously, love from, of, and to God; and love from, of, and
to people in His Name for His sake is a quite different way of consideration, without measure to quantify, that any amount
of money can never approach.
Making money is not the same as getting money. Just as feelings
of the spirit person are not emotions of the flesh person, and the spirit of truth in reality is not the same as the spirit
of the moment; choosing our thoughts in response to Christ with regard to those around us is not the same as following our
thoughts about Him in how we interact with those same others. Commonly, we call ‘getting money’ ‘making
money’ in that education, training, and experience prepare us to earn a better living if we have or find, and take advantage
of, available opportunities. These are ways to ‘get money’ from those who ‘make money’. An employee
helps his or her employer make a company’s money and therefore gets (hopefully) paid.
Again, our professions in work, our employment in a career,
are ways to get the money we need to pay our way through responsibilities and desires. As responsibilities and desires are
not mutually exclusive concerns, we understand that tending to both is limited by our level of income. Endeavors to orient
ourselves to how and where we may increase our income are plans, procedures, and cooperation with others to get the monies
we need and want. Those who are in business to make money are also in business to get money, but the difference is in understanding
that if one makes money, the possible opportunities of means to get money increases. Contrariwise, when one or another (or
several to many) work to get money as a way to make money, it is very difficult to make money to get.
‘Making money,’ as opposed to ‘getting
money’, is in integrating one’s creative production to the needs and wants of others. As an employee, that integration
is in response to the wishes of owners, often through delegated supervisory authorities. Many private company’s best
employees are the owners themselves because they understand their responsibilities to provide the work environment and social
opportunities to help their employees make their money from which everyone may be paid.
The three tiered purposes of any business are providing
goods and services, and the jobs necessary for workers to produce those goods and services, for the sake of God’s benevolent
gift of living. Profits are a natural consequence and not the goal. For example: Governmental and business provided health
insurance/care programs reduce employee wages, increase the costs of goods and services, swell taxation overload, undermine
pick-and-choose expressions of conscience, and drive economic optimism into despair. Men and their wives, as well as our nation,
more appropriately would be better off to buy private health insurance coverage while keeping their faith reliance in God
through healthy living.
It is commonly believed that
the core of a man's provisions of support for his wife and children is money. But, God's promise to the faithfully involved
is He knows and understands our most cared about needs and will provide. The wisdom of mankind is based in physically observable
results of compensation for labor of the flesh, while the wisdom of God is based in the spiritual unseen results manifested
in mortal life through prayer, faith, and the same labor for a different reason. Consequently,
a man's provisions for his wife and children are his invitations and opportunities for togetherness and unity of pledge based
heartfelt purpose.
In Scripture, God reveals to us He does not know everything before it happens because He gives us the
choice to respond to His call of salvation. He gives us the preference to choose what we will say and what we will do. Since
the eternal value of our souls are infinitely more important than our financial well being, and He knows of our tendencies
to greed in the face of wealth, we might find ourselves poorly struggling and at the same time among people of poverty who
need a witness of faith and endurance. God is our
immediate supply for His purposes in the moments of daily life. He meets us where we are – not yesterday or tomorrow.
As we trust in His leading by upholding our own word in His Word to those we are committed, through faith action in respecting
whom we are to our loved ones; we will find there is no lack in His fulfilling our proper expectations.
Creation of the universe is unfolding even as you are reading this. God chose, for our sake, to become
vulnerable to trust because of His promise of the Authority inherent in free will to everyone. Honor has in His design
the primary elements of respect and courtesy. He knows the results of decisions and choices people may make and can and does
intervene when it does not violate His Word. God knows the intent of the heart and wishes a person’s attention to be
converted from misunderstanding to understanding. If a person’s intent in their desire is to establish a relation with
the world through the knowledge of good and evil, he or she has the right to do so. It does not mean it is right or healthy
for them and others, but it does affect the entirety of creation. So, God does not know specifically what we will do tomorrow,
or in the next moment, because we have the call to accept His will, or not.
Just as we do not know the choices our children are making as a day transpires, God does not know what
choices we will make. He sent His Son to provide an avenue for our restoration to Him and the life He created for us to have.
We have the choice to accept His offer of salvation. The means God used to do this is to separate His Omnipotence from the
temporal world by granting His authority to the people through their prophesied position of fulfillment. In other words, by
grace through faith, the creation of the finishing of the souls is in the Authority of the people.
If a person uses his or her authority (bought through Christ’s incarnation, death, and resurrection)
to have faith in secular existence, the moments of life become part of the eroding of Creation itself. God wishes all to be
saved. Not everyone wishes to be saved. Therefore, in His ever-loving kindness, God blesses a person with the joy, or suffering,
of his or her own life, or demise, respectively. A rich man may have the secular reward he wishes. There is much poverty and
suffering, denial of opportunity, and most importantly lost souls, at the hands of selfish and ambitious people. There are
many genuine God loving faithful Christians who die of starvation at the hands of self-righteous, prideful, and indignant
people.
Time, and time again, many have said, "It's never too late." More importantly, it's never too early. Because the Work of Christ
encompasses all things, including time itself, there is no such thing as fate. Fate is a myth that denies personal responsibility.
Each person was brought into this world with an intended general purpose. The idea, or belief, that every thought, feeling,
act, and event was planned to happen is not true. Most people, due to distraction and influence by Satan and his demons, other
people, and by their own choosing, never find their purpose. There is no luck. There is no coincidence.
Everything and everyone is being influenced in one way or another.
This world, as we know it, is a battlefield. Even though the war has been won, the working out of the battles of process is
not finished. As long as anyone believes they must earn God’s attentions, He views them as immature and under the dictates
of the Law. When anyone accepts His grace and mercy of Life through faith in Christ, He views them as mature and under the
freedoms of the Grace of obedience to promise that dismantles the restrictions of the law by obedience through works. Everyone
is a part of Christ whether in His death or His resurrection. Life is a matter of accepting to be lifted up into the Resurrection
of Christ’s mercy, out from our death in His of condemnation by Crucifixion.
Devotion, when founded in valuing people based in their
monetary prowess, will wax and wane with the intensities of life and death. False faith drawn from emotional attachments to
financial seed planting leads to shallow allegiances. Fanaticism, through materialistic defensive ideas and exercises, places
other’s faithful expectations into subservient faithless obligated fantasies and serves to bring reproach upon the causes
of truth. The adversary works to deceive people by driving them into extremes, and when their habits are extreme the Gospel
message is mentally screened in ways that simple faithful trust loses its understanding.
Satan’s demonic entities incessantly are ready to seize our
concerns to exploit every error, every failure, every unbecoming act and hold it up among the people in its most exaggerated
light - to render loathsome perceptions about our faithful living people. The prince of evil contests every inch of ground
over which God’s people may advance in their Christ victory by blinding people to the reasons they work and what may
be done with their income(s). Thus, the greater the numbers of God = Money believers he can crowd into making false professions
of faith in money, as if it is the power of God, the more distant people become from each other. While his power of suggestion
controls their hearts, the greater advantage he thinks to gain is by calling attention to destruction of the witness marriages
and families exist to give as the Church Body of Gospel believers.
The substance of the power of money is only in what money
can do. The more money available, the more that can be done with it. Therefore, expressions of desire are dependent upon the
financial ability to realize success. Money, put first as a precondition to an enduring commitment of promise, removes the
power of faith behind the promise. Most often the confusing tensions over money, with derogatory attacks about money founded
in resentment, is a result of misplaced and disoriented profession of faithful dedication. However, the promise is not cancelled
by the misunderstood conditions because error in attentive expectation does not supersede love through faith. Nobody needs
to prove their worth since our worthiness is in Christ. Decisions centered in what money can do, by their direction of intent,
are not anything compared to the decisions God has prepared for our responses in shared decision making.
Backbiting, gossip, (talking behind a loved one’s
back) and underhanded manipulation is an anti-confessing confession opposed to the natural honesty one is responsible to share
in privacy with whomever they are committed. Since God is our source of supply for all things through faith in Christ, we
forget that the love of money is not the love of God. Because people are deceived to believe money reflects one or another’s
level of holiness and sanctification with God (because people erringly believe ‘love’ is defined in emotion: “God
loves us, therefore He is the embodiment of emotion… therefore His supply is emotionally founded in the amount of money
one has to do what needs to be done… and, since God promises to give to us the desires of our heart, then one without
money is evil, insensitive, and ungodly…”).
Honoring the positions of proper authorities is the only
viable and elegant ‘chain of command’ balance between; “To each his own.” and “We’re all
in this together.” Conservatism is protection for our freedoms through responsibility. Freedom away from responsibility
for ourselves and others with and to whom we must rely for health and well being brings anarchy, chaos, and destruction of
the very lives we wish to work to enjoy. Liberalism without conservative constraints has no stop-gaps against disrespect for
life, liberty, and happiness for everyone. The only source of quality of life comes from the heart through trust in God. Legislation,
judicial, and any sort of pragmatic secular efforts cannot bring our economy into beneficial support for everyone without
applying our faith in action provided by our Creator of ways and reasons.
Properly, without overreaching respect to their positions
within each category, government should be in service to the community (as community is of the people), community should be
in service to business (as business requires public agreement), business should be in service to the church (as the church
is an integrated function of stable family prosperity), the church should be in service to the family (as organized gatherings
of faith encompass various families), and the family should be in service to God. All these levels of accountability and obligation
find their historical and future progress or obstruction in and through the schooling of our children.
Ideally, corporations would be wise to privatize their operations
by vacating the stock market to bolster their employee base and quality of goods and services. Individuals would be wise to
convert their funds from speculative public investments by placing their money in local bank simple interest savings accounts.
When a man and woman base their desires for solutions of togetherness in what can and cannot be done with money, money becomes
the binding focus of confidence – a type of materialistic salvation. As economic conditions vary from ultimate satisfaction
into lack, there is a distancing of shared purpose where individual notions and perception loses common ground.
Working a job can become a pretense of faith through works
because it seems money answers questions we no longer trust God to answer. The value of a person to the union of marriage
may be believed to have become diminished when misplaced loyalties trust in the monetary results of togetherness as if love
(the steadfast expression of vowed commitment) is dependent upon financial security. Then, because the Christian faith accepts
God as the supplier of our well being, we look to Him in prayer to bring the money we need to feel like we can love and be
loved. This is where we try to use God in service to a larger ideal of existence that appeals to our yearning for fulfillment.
God told Moses in the wilderness that he did not need to stay with
the people who had rejected His plan for them. He said He would raise up unto Moses another people to be the recipients of
His promise to Moses to uphold His witness of Truth to the world. But Moses, as an example in faith in God’s Word, remained
in the wilderness forty years with the people until they came to enter the Promised Land. A fractal, not fractured, faith in God’s plan for living allows cleaving to
His promises about our Created reasons for His structured reasons our existing awareness may moment by moment recognize.
2 Corinthians chapter 4
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