God Save the USA…May We Seek You…

If only we can lower our regulations and have the simpler system we had in earlier days. The more regulation, the more trouble. More deficit, more trouble. More money printed, more trouble. The more companies, more jobs, the better the economy. Doesn’t take a brain to figure this one out. History tells the story of both sides… There are some videos at the bottom of this post that represent important issues with today’s economy. It is not money that is evil, it is the fact that we make money the slave of our lives. Our hearts should be for the poor, no matter what we make or what our status is. Our desires should be to please God, no matter what we make or what our status is. Our love should be for all our brothers and sisters in Christ as well as our communities, no matter what we make or what our status is. Our responsibility should be to as good stewards of money, no matter what we make or what our status is. Our motives should be centered in humility, no matter what we make or what our status is. Our blessings come from Christ, no matter what we make or what our status is. Our satisfaction is from Christ, no matter what we make or what our status is. This is why the more regulation the government gives business and families the more they are running our lives and making decisions for us. This has ultimately led to the downfall of nearly all democracies. Every democracy being eliminated or extremely changed in the past. The average age of democracies over all of God’s creation has been 200 years. May God have blessing on ours. I’m quite certain that if we keep going the way we are in our country we will end up loosing that blessing, help us all.

The Message Bible Translation

Ecclesiastes 5

^8-9 Don’t be too upset when you see the poor kicked around, and justice and right violated all over the place. Exploitation filters down from one petty official to another. There’s no end to it, and nothing can be done about it. But the good earth doesn’t cheat anyone—even a bad king is honestly served by a field.
¹⁰ The one who loves money is never satisfied with money,
Nor the one who loves wealth with big profits. More smoke.

 ^18-20 After looking at the way things are on this earth, here’s what I’ve decided is the best way to live: Take care of yourself, have a good time, and make the most of whatever job you have for as long as God gives you life. And that’s about it. That’s the human lot. Yes, we should make the most of what God gives, both the bounty and the capacity to enjoy it, accepting what’s given and delighting in the work. It’s God’s gift! God deals out joy in the present, the now. It’s useless to brood over how long we might live.

Galatians 5

 ^13-15It is absolutely clear that God has called you to a free life. Just make sure that you don’t use this freedom as an excuse to do whatever you want to do and destroy your freedom. Rather, use your freedom to serve one another in love; that’s how freedom grows. For everything we know about God’s Word is summed up in a single sentence: Love others as you love yourself. That’s an act of true freedom. If you bite and ravage each other, watch out—in no time at all you will be annihilating each other, and where will your precious freedom be then?

 ^16-18My counsel is this: Live freely, animated and motivated by God’s Spirit. Then you won’t feed the compulsions of selfishness. For there is a root of sinful self-interest in us that is at odds with a free spirit, just as the free spirit is incompatible with selfishness. These two ways of life are antithetical, so that you cannot live at times one way and at times another way according to how you feel on any given day. Why don’t you choose to be led by the Spirit and so escape the erratic compulsions of a law-dominated existence?

Proverbs 22

 ⁶ Point your kids in the right direction—
when they’re old they won’t be lost.

⁷ The poor are always ruled over by the rich,
so don’t borrow and put yourself under their power.

1 Thessalonians 4

 ^11-12Stay calm; mind your own business; do your own job. You’ve heard all this from us before, but a reminder never hurts. We want you living in a way that will command the respect of outsiders, not lying around sponging off your friends.

1 Timothy 6

 ^6-8A devout life does bring wealth, but it’s the rich simplicity of being yourself before God. Since we entered the world penniless and will leave it penniless, if we have bread on the table and shoes on our feet, that’s enough.

Proverbs 11

 ²⁸ A life devoted to things is a dead life, a stump;
a God-shaped life is a flourishing tree.

Hebrew 13

 ^5-6Don’t be obsessed with getting more material things. Be relaxed with what you have. Since God assured us, “I’ll never let you down, never walk off and leave you,” we can boldly quote,
God is there, ready to help;
I’m fearless no matter what.
Who or what can get to me?

Proverbs 12

 ²⁴ The diligent find freedom in their work;
the lazy are oppressed by work.

2 Thessalonians 3

^6-9Our orders—backed up by the Master, Jesus—are to refuse to have anything to do with those among you who are lazy and refuse to work the way we taught you. Don’t permit them to freeload on the rest. We showed you how to pull your weight when we were with you, so get on with it. We didn’t sit around on our hands expecting others to take care of us. In fact, we worked our fingers to the bone, up half the night moonlighting so you wouldn’t be burdened with taking care of us. And it wasn’t because we didn’t have a right to your support; we did. We simply wanted to provide an example of diligence, hoping it would prove contagious.

 ^10-13Don’t you remember the rule we had when we lived with you? “If you don’t work, you don’t eat.” And now we’re getting reports that a bunch of lazy good-for-nothings are taking advantage of you. This must not be tolerated. We command them to get to work immediately—no excuses, no arguments—and earn their own keep. Friends, don’t slack off in doing your duty.

 ^14-15If anyone refuses to obey our clear command written in this letter, don’t let him get by with it. Point out such a person and refuse to subsidize his freeloading. Maybe then he’ll think twice. But don’t treat him as an enemy. Sit him down and talk about the problem as someone who cares.