THE GOD VALUE
We are of a higher nature but we get to choose if we operate on that higher level or not. We get to choose what team we play on, and what position we play. Here is another rule to follow; THINGS OF A LOWER NATURE MUST SUCCUMB TO THOSE OF A HIGHER NATURE. The bible has many examples of Jesus prizing those things of a higher nature above those of a lower nature. Example is of the widowed woman who gave her last money with faith of more. It was only worth a half of a cent. That same day and the same setting, there were rich man who gave hundreds of dollars worth into the donation bucket. When Jesus saw the two amounts ( the one half cent, and the hundreds ) placed in the bucket, he pointed at the woman who put in the lesser amount and said, “this woman has given the most of all.” Why would Jesus say she gave more than any other person that day? The reason is because she gave with higher intentions than the other men. We can assume that that woman was blessed beyond any of the men that gave that day. This is the way the giving cycle is set up. If you want to thrive in the future, it will not be up to the person who is merely doing it for financial gain, it will be for the individuals who are doing it with the intention to grow gods universe. The wealth will be for those who act for the up building of gods kingdom.
A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.
Proverbs 13:22
The people of a lower nature are those who do things for lower intentions. The lowest of the intentions is the intention of self; Self gratification, self desire, and self esteem etc. These should merely be results from the action; they should not be the prize for the action. Doing things for yourself and yourself only is becoming less valuable in society.
Let me paint you a picture of how value changes. Your intentions and beliefs are the credentials god looks at. The value of your spiritual resume is largely determined by what your intention and beliefs are. We all know how school has affected what types of jobs we qualify for. It is the same with the riches we qualify to get from god. In the beginning a high school diploma meant that you were qualified for a higher pay than those without a high school diploma. A high school diploma meant you went out of your way to become more valuable. Not many people had high school diplomas, and that meant if you had one you were a little more valuable to the marketplace than the candidates without one. Eventually everyone started to achieve high school diplomas. At that moment high school diplomas went from being something that was outstanding, to a commodity that everyone had. When that shift in value is made, the people who held jobs because of their high school diplomas became immediately less valuable, because they stopped growing. The pay they were receiving from their jobs significantly decreased. A high school diploma WAS something of a higher nature; but with time it became something of a lower nature; and an associates degree became valuable over the high school diploma. The associated degree went through the exact same value changes as the high school diploma went through. The associate degree was replaced with the bachelors; and the bachelors with the masters. And now we have reached a point in society where EVERYONE is educated. I can learn the same information about anything from youtube for free, that a college student is learning. This is putting college degrees’ in the same situation as the high school diploma was in. Now we are graded on how valuable we are from what we have produced, not by what college degree we have.
God looks at our beliefs and intentions the same way. If you have low intentions, and you keep those low intentions, your value to people and to god will decrease, and go through the same value changes the high school diploma went through, to eventually become obsolete. We have to constantly be changing our value or you can see that It will be a constant going backwards. This is why he says the wealth of the wicked will be laid up for the just; It’s because the wicked will become less and less valuable until the money they earned will go to he who has a higher intention and belief.
God’s mission is to grow the kingdom at all cost. He will go to any place in the universe he has to in order to create this growth. With this being known you can see why someone with the intention of growing the universe will eventually get more assistance than he who is working to satisfy selfish desires of money and fame. We have to continually upgrade ourselves to upgrade our value.
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Romans 12:2
The renewing of our minds keeps us valuable. We are expected by god to increase our value, lest we yield the value we have now.
13 “Therefore stay alert, because you do not know the day or the hour. 14 For it is like a man going on a journey, who summoned his slaves and entrusted his property to them. 15 To one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one, each according to his ability. Then he went on his journey. 16 The one who had received five talents went off right away and put his money to work270 and gained five more. 17 In the same way, the one who had two gained two more. 18 But the one who had received one talent went out and dug a hole in the ground and hid his master’s money in it. 19 After a long time, the master of those slaves came and settled his accounts with them. 20 The one who had received the five talents came and brought five more, saying, ‘Sir, you entrusted me with five talents. See, I have gained five more.’ 21 His master answered, ‘Well done, good and faithful slave! You have been faithful in a few things. I will put you in charge of many things. Enter into the joy of your master.’ 22 The one with the two talents also came and said, ‘Sir, you entrusted two talents to me. See, I have gained two more.’ 23 His master answered, ‘Well done, good and faithful slave! You have been faithful with a few things. I will put you in charge of many things. Enter into the joy of your master.’ 24 Then the one who had received the one talent came and said, ‘Sir, I knew that you were a hard man, harvesting where you did not sow, and gathering where you did not scatter seed, 25 so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. See, you have what is yours.’ 26 But his master answered, ‘Evil and lazy slave! So you knew that I harvest where I didn’t sow and gather where I didn’t scatter? 27 Then you should have deposited my money with the bankers, and on my return I would have received my money back with interest! 28 Therefore take the talent from him and give it to the one who has ten. 29 For the one who has will be given more, and he will have more than enough. But the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken from him. 30 And throw that worthless slave into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth’”
Matthew 25:14-30
There is no alibi for failure to increase value. As you see from the previous text; you will lose value if you only hold to the values, you have now. God rewards that behavior by taking it away and giving it to those of a HIGHER NATURE. This is why the bible says the wealth of the wicked it laid up for the just! Those who are just have the ideas and intentions of increase just as god has. And not only possesses those intentions; but who an act on those intentions until it comes. This brings us to DEEDS!
FAITH WITH DEEDS
Faith without deeds is dead. If there is no work with the belief and faith, then belief and faith means absolutely nothing.