Economics is defined as the science of matching unlimited needs with limited resources.
In a simple way we can all understand that no matter how much money is available there is never enough to buy what we want. There is something worse.
We all know people who want more and more money. They give up their life for the accumulation of money. They have much more money than they can ever spend.
God's economy works differently. God's economics is defined as the matching of unlimited resources with what is actually needed.
In the Bible in II Kings 4:1-17 we have the story of the widow with a great need. Her husband had died. There was an unpaid debt and the creditor was planning to take her two sons to work off the debt. She cried out to Elisha. He asked what she wanted him to do. She told him that all she had was a pot of oil. Elisha told her to go and borrow empty vessels from her neighbors. "Borrow not a few" he said. Then he told her to go into her house, shut the door and begin to fill the vessels from her pot. She filled them all. When all the vessels were filled her pot was still full. She went to Elisha and he told her to sell the oil, pay the debt and then live off the rest. This woman first had a need. She had nothing to fill that need. She was desperate when she went to Elisha who she knew was a man of God. She was in dependence on her husband's fear of the Lord. She did as she was instructed and was delivered. It is important to note that she stopped borrowing vessels before greed set in. Then she was alone in her house, away from Elisha, and alone with God. There with what resource she had God dealt with her need.
Why is that principle so difficult to understand and to obey? We live in fear of not having enough money. Money becomes our deliverer. Government exploits that knowledge by promising us more money, money that can only be obtained by taking from someone else.
God is our Provider if we but trust Him. He can do the impossible if we seek Him and not view Him as a genie in a pot ready to grant our wishes. He can take whatever resources we have and multiply them if we but bring those resources to Him and seek Him in faith.
David Sneed
In a simple way we can all understand that no matter how much money is available there is never enough to buy what we want. There is something worse.
We all know people who want more and more money. They give up their life for the accumulation of money. They have much more money than they can ever spend.
God's economy works differently. God's economics is defined as the matching of unlimited resources with what is actually needed.
In the Bible in II Kings 4:1-17 we have the story of the widow with a great need. Her husband had died. There was an unpaid debt and the creditor was planning to take her two sons to work off the debt. She cried out to Elisha. He asked what she wanted him to do. She told him that all she had was a pot of oil. Elisha told her to go and borrow empty vessels from her neighbors. "Borrow not a few" he said. Then he told her to go into her house, shut the door and begin to fill the vessels from her pot. She filled them all. When all the vessels were filled her pot was still full. She went to Elisha and he told her to sell the oil, pay the debt and then live off the rest. This woman first had a need. She had nothing to fill that need. She was desperate when she went to Elisha who she knew was a man of God. She was in dependence on her husband's fear of the Lord. She did as she was instructed and was delivered. It is important to note that she stopped borrowing vessels before greed set in. Then she was alone in her house, away from Elisha, and alone with God. There with what resource she had God dealt with her need.
Why is that principle so difficult to understand and to obey? We live in fear of not having enough money. Money becomes our deliverer. Government exploits that knowledge by promising us more money, money that can only be obtained by taking from someone else.
God is our Provider if we but trust Him. He can do the impossible if we seek Him and not view Him as a genie in a pot ready to grant our wishes. He can take whatever resources we have and multiply them if we but bring those resources to Him and seek Him in faith.
David Sneed
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