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Pastimes : JESUS and FINANCIAL FREEDOM -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Cisco who wrote (77)	11/13/1997 8:20:00 PM
From: Richard Babusek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1283

Dear Cisco & Gregor I have a problem (& it's MY problem) with the question to paraphrase "... Should God give you wealth ...". I believe God to be the first or ultimate cause of all things. If God intervenes directly in my affairs I can't know. If I allow God's spirit into my hart I can know (by the strength and power I gain). Not in the sense of power to get stuff, but in the sense of the strength of praying the serenity prayer, in the sense that you can "know something in your hart". I have come to except that God is all powerful and loving while bad things happen to good people. If God gives me wealth (in a literal sense) he must do so depending upon if I deserve it (or not). If I must deserve my wealth, then I must explain the wealthy & evil, and it implies those less wealthy must be less deserving. Now the only thing more difficult for me are the other alternatives, a) he gives wealth to those who don't deserve it, or b) randomly , without any reason (we can understand)! For the sake of clarity when I say God must do a or b it's just my way of enumerating the list of choices as I understand them, not my determination of "what God must do". So my rejection of God dispensing wealth to individuals is as much for my own sanity as anything else. Actually I can easily accept God doing things I can't understand, but they're beyond me, I can't know, I can't do anything. I can't remember who to cite for the idea " Economics is the study of how we relate to one another", but I accept that view. Since how we treat our brothers, is in fact accepted as treatment by our Lord, then a keen study of economics in that sense seems advisable. Just so I believe economics to be an issue of qualities, rather than quantities. If God is love, and love rejoices in truth, that explains why the Lord loves an honest scale. All tools to seek truth and dispense justice can be used to further our relationship with him through others, or otherwise. These breifly are my reflections on one of your questions. Cisco - Thanks for the references. Warm regards, Ricardo