Trinity Baptist Church

When the presidential candidates were gearing up their campaigns, one of the first things we heard, was their plan for the economy future.  Candidates have long since learned that “we the people” are pretty gullible, and if they say it’s their plan, we will consider it good as done.  Four years later, there will be some excuse (usually the opposing political party) why it didn’t materialize, but a band new plan will be rolled out, and we will buy into it all over again.

God has a plan, and He never has to make an excuse for why His didn’t work, because when His plan is worked, His plan always works.  It’s really not complicated, and it can be summed up under the following points:

• Get out of debt, because the borrower is slave to the lender, and God intends for you to live in freedom.  You are to owe nothing to any man, but to love one another.
• Live within your means.  Be content with such things as you have, because contentment and godliness is great gain.  A person’s life is not in the abundance of things.
• Be a giver, because God says the way to get is to give.  God is able to make all grace abound toward you, and it is He who supplies seed to the sower and bread to the eater.
• Be diligent in God-honoring work (work that provides a needed product or service, and work that doesn’t detract from your Christian testimony,) because God said if a person will not work, he shouldn’t eat.  Laziness is consistently denounced in the Bible, and we are told to work so that we will lack nothing, and so that we will have to give to those who are in need.
• Lay aside a reasonable amount for emergency situations and less opportune times.  We are told to consider the ant, who gathers food in the summer with the knowledge that winter is coming.

Some people lack the discipline to handle credit cards, therefore, they should not have them.   Credit cards are convenient when used like a check, and the full balance is paid each month.  They are a financial trap, otherwise.

These biblical principles will work for anyone who will make them the practice of his life.  For the Christian, they are supercharged with the power of the Holy Spirit.  A love for God and an obedience to the principles of God’s word is an unfailing combination.