Krona Pengar was a conservative businessman in nowhere according to the elites but yet somewhere in flyover USA. He had some sense of God, and some clarity of God's ways, but he really wanted money. So it was that this attitude radiated to his customers. They came to look at his unique thingybob. He was the only establishment in all of somewhere of 20'000 people that carried this specific thingybob. However, half of the would be customers where a little put off by Mr. Pengar's attitude. They walked out empty handed with no thingybob. They went to elsewhere, another small town just to the north to get their thingybobs, or they ordered them online. Problem was, our man Pengar "needed" "his" money. So he thought about it, and talked to different aquaintances and got a grasp of the problem. He decided to think of his interactions as a seesaw. On one end was the thingybob and all the things around it, the way in which it was presented, the service after the sale, the experience of the customer in the store etc. On the other end was the customer's money. So, if the customer entered the establishment with the seesaw balanced, our crafty businessman saw his role as weighting the service end of the seesaw. In so doing, the money would inevitably slide towards him. The scheme worked, 85% of Pengar's walk in traffic walked out with less money and a thingybob in hand. He became a millionare. Big money for someone living in Somewhere, Flyover. When Pengar was old, and living on his millions, he looked back in life, and tried to put his finger on something of significance he had done, something of lasting value. He had won the millions for his children, but they hadn't made him happy, so what thing could do for his children of any real value? How would the millions fill that something inside, that void, that desire for value? In dismay, he realized, that he needed to figure out something of value with the millions, for that was all he had.... He wished for a chance to start over....and so it was, and so it ended.
So, in the Kingdom of God, we live by a different policy, by a different life, a different way. What do I mean? Policy is the Lord's will, not my will. Life is the eternal kind, with the Lord, not the earthy rat race until we die kind. The way is the Lord's way, not the comfortable way. So it is that we should not assume that the free market seesaw driven by greed is the Lord's way, will, or policy. (Not to say the free market is not the Lord's way to exchange goods and services, I tend to think maybe it is if it were completely free of abuses and evils.) I am pretty sure that when you study the uniqueness of each person made in the image of God in the ways they are gifted, and the way the talents were distributed in the parable Jesus told, that any form of centralized government that collects and distributes wealth the same regardless of work put out as we see in communism and socialism is very far from God's policy, way, or will.
So let me set this up a little here. In Matthew 6:24-26 we see where Jesus speaks of God as one who will supply your needs. In 2 Thessalonians 3:10 Paul and friends say, don't want to work? Shouldn't eat either. Oof. Then in Colossians 35 we see where Paul went on a long row about putting off all those things of the world, like malice, anger, foul language etc, and how instead you put on things of the Lord, like mercy, kindness, humilty etc. Then he says something interesting, whatever it is you do, do it from your heart, to the Lord, not to men, so, basically, serve. We serve a Lord who has given this earth's humans a free will to violate His ways continually and make a terrible mess out of things. Don't believe me? Well, I started to give you examples but then my conservative politics began to show so I stopped. ;) Anyway, so it is, free will, earth not living in the Lord's way, because of it, and yet the Lord, sovereign, all powerful, promised to provide. Then there is the way of the Lord. One who came born in a barn, washed feet, actual dirty feet, yeeeuck! His first miracle as a man was in the background serving role, making wine, if your prudish, you can call it grape juice, but it was wine. Then, with angels watching who were on His side, holding weapons more powerful than a million nukes He decided to let Himself be stripped naked and die. So it is, the Kingdom way is the unvarnished, unpolished, dirty, sloppy, serving way. To love others, not to be loved. Not to be clean, but to clean. Not to be clothed, but to clothe others. Don't get me wrong, I want you to be loved, clean, and most definitely dressed, but I am desiring that we see a priority in the serving department, for the Lord. So it is, that the Kingdom way is that we take our seesaw, and we break it, and then we walk away from it. Your customer, is the person in your life that the Lord has sent to you to serve. That's it. The fact that his money ends up in your pocket is a simple reality of the Lord keeping His promise. You see, the Lord, working through free will, is still keeping His promise, the seesaw is His. He knows how to work it, your seesaw is a little thing, it's rotten, full of greed. Break it. If you don't, you will short circuit the Lord's way. When a machine short circuits, it blows a fuse, pops a breaker and needs to cool off, or, it burns out. Have you ever blown a fuse at someone? Have you ever needed to sit and cool off in your heart? Have you ever faced burnout? That was probably your seesaw causing a short circuit, and you were trying to work like a machine so you could feed yourself. The current got to hot for you, for the Lord should have the seesaw, He can use it properly. Keep it simple, serve the people in your life for the Lord. Maybe it sounds like I'm saying, get after it, serve harder, do better, sorry, not the intent, the Lord's way is less pressure, less stress because, no worry. It is not the work that causes the screws to tighten in your soul, it is the worry.
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