Holy Mercies

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Luke 16:9
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I tell you, use worldly wealth to gain friends for yourselves, so that when it is gone, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings.

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Matthew 6:19-21
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“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.
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But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.
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For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

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I know people who rely on the system of exchange to render interest to support their retirement. So because of this, they believe that the system of exchange is worthy of their prayers. They pray for it to be strong, and to last them. This, because they have placed their faith in money and what it provides.

Because they defend it with prayer, they defend whatever political party supplies that system of exchange with stability. They see those individuals as acting on God's behalf, because they feel their prayers are being answered. This, because they have placed their faith in money and what it provides.

Because these political players are seen as acting on God's behalf, anything they do that supplies safety to this system of exchange is seen as the will of God through them. This because money is now the master of hope and the acts of love and the acts of faith of these people I know who have allowed money to become their master.

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Ecclesiastes 4:4

And I saw that all toil and all achievement spring from one person's envy of another. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.

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Everything we do with money that does not supply others in loving ways, only separates us further from the truth. Everything we save here gains interest, every investment here has the potential to prosper, every penny spent, is a penny earned by another. Money has always been a means to an end. It offers temporary freedoms, liberties, and peace, but at the cost of the envy it creates in others. And in the end, in heavenly realms, we come to face the choices we made. And eternally are chastised for them. Because our desires are our to act on for our own gratification, or our desires are ours to deny, to instead recognize others in loving ways that honor the truth.

None of us our perfect, but, perfection can act through us if we deny ourselves. Charity is a great place to start:

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Matthew 25:35
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For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in,

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I live in a generation of self. Gratification is the focal point of almost everything done or worked for. We are enslaved by our envy of one another, driven by pride. As a Christian in this time, I have seen a homeless person as an opportunity. A choice offered, a blessing. Because even our system of exchange is becoming unseen, so that to offer charity in money form is almost unheard of. The wickedness in heavenly realms wants us to punish those who are cast out, while, the truth calls on us to treat others as we would have ourselves be treated.

Christ was hated first.

You will find individuals who deny themselves so that the holiness can act through them. It is you, you who can sacrifice your desire to gain; in order to lovingly give. I do not know what treasures await those who do these things. But perhaps the treasures are mercies, as what charity is truly is a mercy. A bit of God working through a bit of His creation. So in our mercies we show the Father as righteous, and we do so by honoring His truth. Glory be.