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...''
If everyone thought the same as anyone in the world it would still be a messed up place (sin). Yes there is a way ‘things’ and ‘money’ in the world work, and to live we must ‘comply’ and play the game. Well, unless you want to be a broke, hungry, homeless, rebel or go live in the woods like Grizzly Adams.
Fester, your answer is a very good example of what I was anticipating with my firsts questions. I am glad you bring it.
As somebody already commented it, one thing that you could grasp of my paper is that we are encouraged to live fugal. Not broke, but frugal. But then somebody (probably you) could bring to me the same type of hyphotetical question: ''If everyone would think and do as you, now, imagine how the world would become, If everyone would live frugal the market would collapse, it would be chaos, lost of jobs, etc...?''
My answer is the same: On this life nobody had ever think exactly like me and nobody never will, so that argument should never apply. Also you have to take into consideration with whom are you talking with. I am a person that is trying to please and obey God. I don't believe that if I personally decide to live frugal the market will rise and grow, and the chaos will be stoped and everbody will have jobs.
And again I will bring my first example to reinforce my second one: ''No quantity of money or worldly power (or jobs, etc..) will ever fix and heal the world because the healing is spiritual''.
You said ''Yes there is a way ‘things’ and ‘money’ in the world work, and to live we must ‘comply’ and play the game.''
No Fester, if I decide to try to live frugal and be content with what God have give me and work honestly with my own hands and live a quiet live, I don't have to 'comply' and play the (greed) game. Neither do you. In reality this is all a matter of the motivations of the heart. Let the ''complying'' to ''the many'' out there.
You also said ''Well, unless you want to be a broke, hungry, homeless, rebel or go live in the woods like Grizzly Adams.''
That is exactly the appealing of fear that society use to get you into the game of greed. And if we don't trust that God will take care of our needs and that He is control of everything, then, we will surely fall. And if for some reason God would want to show a lesson to somebody of us by being broke, or hungry or homeless, there is no power on earth that would stop it to happen.
Look at Paul, he went through very hard things and didn't comply, he didn't play the greed game, neither Ray does.