"ECONOMY | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary Cambridge https://dictionary.cambridge.org › dictionary › economy — the system of making money and producing and distributing goods and services within a country or region" Mankind has been concerned with the available prosperity to be found in the economy that he inhabits in the world around him from the earliest recognition of his own want and need. The world's economic interests have, over time, spawned every imaginable financial mechanism from organized employment, to banks, to wall street and a plethora of financial oligarchy's. The primary medium, conveyance, or currency for exchange in the majority of today's world economies is of course money. Apparently most consumed by one degree or another of greed for money and material gain have forgotten that there is a higher economy and that its currency is of far greater value. That economy is an institution that far preceded and still overrules man'...
"Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created." Revelation 4:11 (KJ) There's something about this verse in the King James version that grabs me every time that I read it. From the inspiration of this one verse, my heart and mind begin sounding out a litany of truths every time. For example... We did not create ourselves, we were created by God (So any physical trait that we might brag on (even inwardly) only reveals our utter foolishness) We had no hand in our own creation. Such things and even our talents and personal gifts didn't originate with us, but are from the same hands that formed us. And further, we were created not by or for our own pleasure, but HIS. So it seems obvious that our purpose above all other things would be to serve HIS pleasure rather than our own. Indeed, all things are intended to serve His pleasure, but among His greatest pleasures, given the...