No, I am not concerned about that. The problem at this point it's to the point where it's almost like you'd say no b/c you've convinced yourself you can't.
What are you afraid of?
But yeah, people struggling w/ money #1 issue I've seen, & they'll just pass it on. I've thought in the past 'those couples just making ends meet', that will lead to those people I encountered in college for example, upset at the world & everything in it b/c they don't have any money. It's like I was saying, everything produces fruit. In the same way I've wanted to get married, I've seen people think like that talk about money.
If that’s your starting point you have to begin with Horace Mann and public education. Although the example for its establishment hailed from a different place. The intention for its institution was never designed for the reasons we were told. It’s like the ad for the ginzu knife and the numerous benefits they promise. But when you get it home you can’t do the same. That’s not to suggest that knowledge isn’t acquired in school. But a system designed to produce workers will yield different fruit from one another created for tomorrow’s leaders. There‘s no comparison.
This is a school in Switzerland. They’re known for their boarding schools and international student body. We have similar places in America too but the Swiss do it on a different level. Although we‘re sold the merits of college and people compete to gain access to the Ivy League. It will never yield the fruit you’ll acquire by placing your emphasis on boarding school instead. But no one tells you that and they’re not supposed to.
Everything produces fruit.......I wonder about those couples who didn't have the Foundation (maybe as well as they thought they), what will their children's foundation be?
It isn’t enough to know the Lord. We must be ever seeking the truth in light of His presence. We should be cognizant of the devil’s devices and aware of its impact on society. We shouldn’t be following a script he designed and get upset when it doesn’t work. You can’t build tomorrow on a lie because the structure will collapse eventually.
Here is the reality: it's very hard to change once you're married.
It’s different for a person who didn’t live with the principle beforehand. If you enter a union with two people committed to growth and maturity change is welcomed and celebrated.
Going back to the picture of that magazine you shared, that's a ritzy life style. The people I encountered didn't have the ritz. I was welcomed to reality.
That isn’t a depiction of wealth. It may appear so in light of our economy. But things were different then and less expensive. I wasn’t born in that period but our home looked the same as did my grandparents. People lived within their means and it wasn’t uncommon for gifts to be acquired throughout the year.
I lived near a Toys R Us store and discovered their markdown policy through an impromptu visit. It was the end of summer and there were a few aisles devoted to clearance items for popular brands and I was shocked. I asked someone about it and they told me when it starts. I picked up a few things that day and came back every week. The bulk of my shopping was done before November.
I used to build relationships wherever I shopped and continue to do so. I buy exclusively from that person and if they’re not in I’ll put it on hold. They benefit from my loyalty and I get better deals and management is pleased. That’s an outgrowth of shopping in department stores where client books were the norm. It taught me the value of relationships, recognition and appreciation. Oftentimes employees go unseen and I endeavored to do otherwise.
I saw a clip 'Jesus says it's easier for a camel to go thru an eye of a needle then a rich man to enter heaven. People, it's impossible for a camel to go thru the eye of a needle.' It was usually taught to me Jesus still doesn't exclude them & the rich people in the Bible who were still saved, but does someone who has the world care for the world to come? That's what I saw when I went into the world. & I don't want to knock on the rich, I've seen a lot of that too, almost too much, & that's wrong too, "the world's problems are due to the rich & it's time for them to pay", but I also saw the well-off are almost too comfortable too
That's what I see in the magazine picture.
If you fail to instruct the populace on the rudiments of wealth and what they should develop within themselves and their offspring they won’t be equipped. They’ll be forced to rely on what’s bestowed and their earnings will be repressed. No matter what the number says on your paycheck you’re underpaid. The system isn’t designed to reward our labor honestly.
But a righteous man wants everyone to thrive and use the gifts and talents God bestowed as He intended. In most instances that isn’t your employer. You’re a means to an end in his eyes. I remember a conversation my grandfather shared about the home they purchased. He met with his boss and asked for a raise because he needed the money to buy a home. He acknowledged his work and commitment to the company and told him the truth and he got it. That probably wouldn’t happen today because numbers are more important than the lives it impacts.
When love is lacking problems ensue. Whether you have means or not. Everything under the heavens belongs to God including wealth. But many of the people who possess it don’t belong to Him. Their perspective on plenty serves the other and society suffers.
The lamp must shine wherever it’s placed. If the Lord has enriched you financially you’re meant to show Christ in that position as a sign for the world. And the same holds true for our talents, gifts and intelligence. There should be no place within our culture that’s dim if we’re present.
Wealth devoid of love is dangerous. As is knowledge, giftedness, talents and intelligence. The impacts may differ to the naked eye but the results can be costly as we’ve seen with education. In all things and all ways we must look above for guidance.
The general principle of alleviating poverty by facilitating self-sufficiency has a long history. The 12th-century philosopher Maimonides wrote about eight degrees in the duty of charity. In 1826 an explication of the eighth degree was published in a journal called “The Religious Intelligencer”.
Lastly, the eighth and the most meritorious of all, is to anticipate charity by preventing poverty, namely, to assist the reduced brother, either by a considerable gift or loan of money, or by teaching him a trade, or by putting him in the way of business, so that he may earn an honest livelihood and not be forced to the dreadful alternative of holding up his hand for charity.
