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acomplishedartis:
As an introductory note: I do believe that I can be able to back up all this information, it will be just a resume of things that have been going on through my ''young'' mind. Who knows, it might finish giving encorage to somebody.

First I want to put down a couple unfair and unworthy questions that you might have heard around. Because I think that we should not participate on this type of hypothetical and vane reasoning's:

          ''If you had the power and money how would you run and fix the world, how would you address the problem of...   this... and that...?  ''

The truth is that a lot of money and worldly power will never bring us more chances for a more piety, peaceful and quiet life. There is no way our limited mind can have a better plan than Gods, He is the Creator and His masterpiece is perfect and it is still in process. And we are not to pretend to be gods. 

Also I have heard before:

          ''If everyone would think and do as you, now, imagine how the world would become? I don't like neither how things are now but this is how things and money work around here, so you better comply...''

However, on this life nobody had ever think exactly like me and nobody never will, so that argument should never apply. Also since God is in control and not any human freewill, all the wrong and evil we see today doesn't match with how things with humans will always work. Actually this is how all things really work: God being the potter and humans being the clay, there you have a real absolute.


We don't need more money to start trying to live a piety live, it is more important to build our character than to accomplish material dreams (God's is giving an experience of evil to humanity to humble him, if He wanted to give everybody and experience of abundance and total bliss right now, many things would be different.)

Now, before keep on talking about money, again, what is money?Money was only a medium of exchange for the increasingly complex transactions, it is a just a peace of paper that people in general give certain value to it, money is like little cage vouchers, money is a mental idea and we have been trained to respect it and even praise it.

acomplishedartis:
The habitual problem of greed. A few years ago I used to own an small business, I was doing okay, but life bring me knowledge about some things that where not right with me and my bussines, One day I saw a very greedy being in the mirror and decided to left it all, even so I was younger, man I was so greedy, more in my mind than on my wallet, thanks God my business never grew as Mark Zuckerberg's, thanks God my list of mistakes never materialized so much that I would have to keep carry them on.


I don't care that the 95% of the capitalist societies doesn't agree with me, I will say it anyway: When we are waiting and wishing to be ''economically rich'', we have been made weak enough to fall into the temptation of avarice. This desires are something that ''poor'' and ''rich'' often share. Beyond our real basic human needs, this desires are mostly just a mental state for richness! Covet is a sin that is the precursor to many additional sins. Paul said to one of the first communities of believers that greed should not be even mentioned among them (Ephesians 5:3).

However, mainstream culture tell us over and over again; ''greed is good, greed is right, greed works''. And when I say the word culture I am talking about the customs, habits, beliefs, values, arts and behaviors, I am talking about what constitutes peoples way of life.
But WE must worry not, we are slowly learning a new culture, we are supposedly ambassadors of a much grater place, and our habits, values and beliefs are little by little getting reshaped by God's lessons and revelations to our lives.

      Maybe is not my job to judge the greed of society at large, what I am trying to help us understand in here is others  habit's and belief's according to the environmental factors and the internal condition of the human heart that shape society today. If I were to specifically expose others greed and covet I would better start with unashamed pastors and coward theologians.

acomplishedartis:
Good Reasons why to worry not about money. Have we ever thought what is like to be in the situations of people that seem more unfortunate? How can we know how bad it is if we never experience it? ...Often, rather than having mercy we tend to look at this situations just as a remembrance to don't complain on small things, an opportunity to feel better about our selves or we see them with fear of ever founding our selves in those ugly shoes... I have been guilty of all. But I keep thinking about this things and try to remember that I am no better, there has been occasions I have put my self in difficult situations to know at list glimpse of what is like, I don't expect anyone to do the same, I know I have gone far, sometimes maybe too far, but also I wanted to be better trained on surviving skills and kill some personal fears.

Back to the subject. Here are some good reasons why to worry not about money:


* God says that we shouldn't worry about anything (Matthew 6:25) -no matter how much we worry about it, we are not going to grow up not even one millimeter

* There is many reason why the world (including their banks, politics, churches, and marketers) want to scare us.Fear is one of the strongest appeals to get something out of us. But now we are becoming to know better. And not even social pressure, the mass media or our old taken for granted assumptions should make us any harm.

* Because ALL is of God (2Cor 5:18). An so we have to keep always in mind whatever we can grasp of the whole picture of God's master plan.

acomplishedartis:
The secret solution.

''I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want.
I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need.''    Apostle Paul

  The only way that we will ever have enough is considering that we have enough--Right Now. Be happy and grateful with what we have and what life has already showed us. God knows very well our basic needs! and He also knows how much pressure we are personally able to handle.

Paul knew about his basic human needs very well, he was a survivor, he was a man with only God as his primary authority (as well as Ray). So Paul really knew what was he talking about when he said that he had master the secret of being content whatever the situation.


       I am about to finish my money tread... One thing that one day suddenly came to my mind was what does it really means that God is going to judge us according to OUR OWN works (according to our own perception of reality and capacities), think about it for longer and you will start to see things less dark regarding your accounts to God, He surely does takes in account our naivety and ignorance, and that He made us with a very weak heart, He is very just and responsible. And since we all have a different background, a different list of mistakes stuck in our backs we are the only ones that can honestly draw a picture of our currently basic human needs, a list that will help us to stay away easier of covet and see material objects just for their utility, a list of things that we really need, a list not made with a bunch of idols from our hearts.

However,

Lets just keep in mind one thing; wherever we live and whatever we own, let's try to don't ever make a shame and mortify those who have nothing when building up our personal lists and lifestyles.


Okay, now I am done. I didn't meant to take so much time and space, as you know these themes could expand into pages and pages, but hopefully I have already expressed clearly the main points.



One man considers himself rich, yet has nothing [to keep permanently]; another man considers himself poor, yet has great [and indestructible] riches. (Proverbs 13:7)

Fester:
 
I have been lurking in the bushes for some time now after reading this.
Am I the only one seeing the holes in this swiss cheese dissertation?
 

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