Some say: Trust God and government. I say: Trust God or government. One is Creator and Giver of life; the other is not. One is Omnipotent and Omniscient; the other is not. One is King of kings and Lord of lords; the other is not.
Private property, a decidedly Judeo-Christian doctrine, is what frees people to distribute what they earn on whatever they choose — a concept foreign to humanistic thought.
For example, prior to LBJ’s War on Poverty, the American black family was intact with a working father and stay-at-home mother, was moving up economically, and out-of-wedlock pregnancies were at the national average. However, the Progressive Democrat programs of public housing, food stamps, child welfare, Medicaid, etcetera, specifically and intentionally targeted the black family to destroy it. As a result, low-income black fathers became tragically unnecessary and a financial impediment to their families. Uncle Sam replaced them, and American society has suffered for it.
Since introducing the Great Society 40 years ago, marriage has become a mere option, illegitimate pregnancy has skyrocketed, crime is on the increase, academic scores are near bottom internationally, inflation is out of control, and our national debt is staggering.
God has not abdicated His responsibilities as Father, Protector, and Provider by destroying the American nucleus family, has He? Or has government imposed itself as husband, daddy, and benefactor to its self-induced fatherless family? The Judeo-Christian God promises limitless financial reward for obedience to His mandates in conjunction with diligent, hard work. In order to receive the government’s promise of provision, one must limit one’s earnings beneath the government’s restriction on income, which indentures the recipient to the government and unrelenting need.
God’s way to abundant prosperity is generational. Government’s delusional means to success is re-distributional. God liberates people by saying: Give me 10 percent of all you earn, and I will give you more in return — and He does. On the other hand, the government stifles initiative through legislation that says: I will take a percentage of all you earn, and the more you earn the more I will take, and what I take I will give to those who have not earned it — and so it does.
Trusting God, and making wise financial choices, allows parents to pass on wealth to their children, while trusting government (which notoriously makes poor financial decisions), forces those parents to pass on permanent poverty to theirs.
Thomas Jefferson warns, “The Republic will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.”
God promises us, “Bring the full 10 percent into the storehouse . . . test Me in this way . . . see if I will not open the floodgates of heaven and pour out a blessing for you without measure. I will rebuke the devourer for you . . . . Then all the nations will consider you fortunate, for you will be a delightful land.” (Malachi 3:10-12 HCSB)
Therefore, I chose to trust God alone.
