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Health and Wealth Theology
33. So seek ye first the Kingdom ofGod andHis
righteousness, and all these things shall be
added unto you.
What things? They are cited earlier in the chapter -–
what you will eat, drink, and be clothed with, etc.
Nothing is more certain than this -- the person who
cannot be happy without money will never be happy
with money. One has only to read the daily papers to
see that the wealthiest are not necessarily the happiest.
If
money does not make people happy, neither does it
keep them from being happy.
Happiness is
independent of money, but dependent upon the spirit
within.
Isn't life a process of change and risk, growth and
setback? And ultimately isn't what one can realistically
hope for is to achieve a just measure of success
commensurate with one's own ability? This is what
capitalism is and does.
It
puts the responsibility where
it belongs -- on the individual. This, after all, is the
meaning of independence.
The concept of economic individualism is well stated
in
"The Entrepreneur's Credo"by
Dean Alfange:
I do not choose to be a common man. It is
my right to be uncommon, if I can. I seek
opportunity, not security. I do not wish to be a
kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the
state look afterme. I want to take the calculated
risk; to ·dream and to build, to fail and to
succeed.
I refuse to barter incentive for a dole; I prefer
the challenges of life to the guaranteed
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