Truth: The heavenly economy is the opposite of the worldly economy. The world's economy functions on a system of scarcity, whereas the economy of heaven operates on a system of abundance. The worldly economy places those with an overabundance at the top, whereas the heavenly economy places those who lack everything at the top. The worldly economy encourages us to store up money out of fear, whereas the heavenly economy encourages us to be generous with our money out of love. The more we put our faith in money in the global economy, the more established we become in the global economy, but the more faith we put in the provision of our heavenly Father, the more established we become in the heavenly realms.
The whole purpose of our lives here on earth is to draw us back into relationship with the One who created us, to come under His covering, His love, to restore the perfect unity that mankind enjoyed with God before the fall. Every hardship, every trial that we experience here on earth, especially as those who believe on Him, is designed simply to draw us closer to Him through giving Him more and more authority in our lives and hearts. Those who press into Him when times get hard, who trust in Him, that He is good, that He is the source of all provision, receive the fruit of their choices, trusting not in their own strengths and circumstances, in their own understanding and abilities, but in the love of the Father.
In the heavenly economy, God is the source of wealth. His wealth is His goodness, His love, which He gives freely to all those who ask. This is complete nonsense in the eyes of the world, for the world economy operates on a system of having to work for money, of working for our own provision. However, even now we are seeing a sort of undoing of this way of thinking in the form of socialism, of expecting the government of the world to provide for us. Just as there is danger in trusting in our own selves to be the source of our well being, just as there is danger in trusting in money to be the source of our provision, so too is there danger in trusting in the government of the world to be the source of our life. It is not simply a matter of realizing that there is something wrong with the economy of the world, of the established ways of the world, and trying to come up with our own solutions to the problems, it is a matter of bringing those problems before God and trusting that He alone has the solutions to those problems.
The heavenly economy already operates on the equality that this world is seeking to establish on its own terms apart from God. To those who ask of Him shall receive more of Him, and as He is the source of life, this is to receive the abundance of life, simply by asking for it. When times get tough, when things begin happening in our lives and in the world around us, instead of fleeing from them in fear and hiding, instead of blindly trying to make our own way, to hold onto the very things that are keeping us from receiving life, these are precisely the times that we ought to turn to God, to submit to Him and invite Him in to those areas, that we might experience His goodness, His provision, His love.
This is the opposite way of viewing hard times as the world views hard times, as obstacles and trials in the heavenly realms are opportunities to receive more and more life, whereas here on earth they are viewed as that which steals and destroys life. Through this, what the world calls evil actually works together for the good of those who love God and are called according to His purpose. The worldly economy is changing quickly as the desires of man are changing. To place your hope and faith in the economy of the world, the way of the world, is to build your house on the sand. Likewise, to place your hope in faith in a worldly leader who promises to fix all things wrong with the world economy is also to build your house on the sand.
The storm is most surely coming, but we have the choice to begin building our houses upon the rock, to begin to exercise our faith in God's economy, to prepare ourselves, simply by trusting and submitting our lives to Him. The more that we do this, the richer we become in His kingdom, for these are the riches that are eternal, that no moth or flame can destroy, that do not depreciate over time, that do not become worthless and inflated beyond recognition over time. When we have lack, when we experience hardship, all we need to do is go before the throne of God boldly and ask Him, not for what we think we need, but for Him, for His provision, trusting fully that He will provide exactly what we do need.
This way of thinking is radical. It is not the way of the world. It is not compatible with the logic of the world. Just as God is the infinite source of life, He has also created us with the infinite capacity to be filled with His life and given us the key to unlocking the way to enter into His throne room, and all that is required of us is to be bold enough to believe His word and simply ask, to seek Him, to knock on His heavenly door, to wait on His provision in our lives.
He holds the solution to every problem in America today. He holds the solution to every problem in the world today. That solution is Himself, and just as certainly as He created all things, just as certainly as He came to earth as a Man to redeem the earth, He is coming again to restore the world to perfection, to the good and perfect world that He intended it to be. The world wants peace, He is the Prince of Peace. The world wants love, He is the source of all love. The world wants equality, He loves each and every one of us with infinite love, He created each and every one of us out of His unfathomable love for us, He has placed unimaginable value on each of our heads, completely surpassing the world's idea of equality by going straight to the heart of the matter, which is the value of each and every human life. He made us all different, but with individual purpose, unique and gifted, and when we begin to see ourselves as He sees us, we are able to step into the freedom of simply being who He created us to be.
As a church, we need to start living life like this is true, to begin pressing into His goodness, into His provision, placing our lives fully in His hands, crying out to Him day and night to provide all things, trusting in Him and His goodness now in such a degree that we are completely cut off from the world's way of seeing, living in the world but not being of the world, for when the world begins to shift, if we are still holding onto faith in the world, we too will begin to shift.
Already, the church is experiencing this shift. By replacing faith in God with faith in what the world says is right, there are parts of the church that are beginning to place the spirit of the world in place of the Spirit of God. God is the hope of the world, not a man, or the government of a man, but God Himself, and He is true to His word. The more that we see the shifts in the world around us, the more that we ought to be turning to God, crying out to Him to reveal Himself, to enthrone Himself upon our praises, to see His kingdom come to earth, not the opposite. We shouldn't, as a church, sit passively by and just wait for things to get better. We should be responding, and by doing so, we not only are receiving the most abundant life possible here and now, we are also are storing away riches in heaven, growing closer and closer to our most beloved Groom, being transformed from glory to glory into His likeness for now and forevermore.
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