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Sunday, January 1, 2012

When it comes to finances, the biggest question on most people's minds right now is:

What if...?  What if I lose MY job?  What if I leave my money in the stock market and it crashes again?  What if this happens?  What if that happens?

People who are trying to find security and prosperity in this world's economy have asked these questions until they've come to a point of confusion.  They don't know what's going to happen next, so they can't figure out what to do.  Have you ever seen anything like it?

Well, actually... yes!  The system of commerce mankind has come up with is unstable.  It is built to go through cycles. Sometimes up, sometimes down.  Sometimes way down.  Why?  Read in Genesis 11 about the tower of Babel, because that's where the world's economic system originated.  It started when man stopped asking the right question -- i.e., "What has God said?" -- and came up with their own idea of how to  meet their needs apart from Him and His Word.  It started when they tried to use God's method of creation (imagine it, believe it, say it and it will come to pass) to build a tower that would reach all the way to heaven.

As preposterous as the idea might seem to us today, they would have successfully finished that tower if God had not intervened, because His method (imagine it, believe it, say it and it will come to pass) always works!  He stopped them by speaking one word:  the Hebrew word babel, which means "confusion".  With that word God put a permanent cap on man's ability to do anything without Him.

What Did You Say?

What's happening economically in the world today has everything to do with Babel because God did more there than just mix up people's speech.  Although different languages eventually did come out of the confusion, the first and most important thing that happened was this:   Natural man, without God, lost control of his imagination.

At Babel, mankind's ability to build things became limited.  Man's mind slipped out from under his own control.  As a result, when he set about to build a tower, a business, a city or a nation, it would reach a certain magnitude and then fall apart because man's imagination would start working against him.  He'd start seeing himself failing instead of succeeding.  

He'd imagine himself in trouble, believe those imaginations, then start saying, "Oh, what if this or that bad thing happens?  I'm just scared to death that Im going to lose everything.  I'll never be able to solve these problems.  This thing is just too big.  It's going to come down and take me with it."  Although he'd still be using God's creative