The Wake of Mammon Worship

Money. The love of which is the so called root of all evil. America suffers from this love. Our economy is based on greed. When the people don't spend enough on materialism and junk the don't need our economy suffers. The corporations pull manufacturing from this country and send it overseas where the children work cheaper. They do this so they can cut costs and their profit margin grows. Unfortunately quality always suffers and along with that the customer is left with junk that, not only do they not really need, but it usually doesn't live up to their expectations based on the price they paid. The other downfall to this trend is that major suppliers of jobs for American working class people disintegrate. One day a man walks up to the door of the factory he has worked at for 20 years and there is a note there that says they are closed, never to open again. He has nothing to fall back on and suddenly realizes that he has been living just above his means because the economy needed him to spend, spend, spend, and that is what he did. Now his credit cards are through the roof his second mortgage is unpayable and there is nothing he can do about it. Soon he and his family will become a statistic, they will be forced out of their home into a rental if they can find one and their empty house will sit on the bank's books for a year or two until it is about to fall apart from lack of love and then the bank will off it to someone at about half the price of the original mortgage.

Ah, the beauty of being a country in love with Mammon. Our love affair with him has brought us to the point of ruin. Of course none of this is profound. No true insight here just common sense. One may ask the question about who is this mammon that is mentioned? The answer is in the book and many others. The common answer for this era is "...just Google it...". Check "Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia". Once understanding is reached, enlightenment can take place. Look at the world around you. If you are agoraphobic and don't like to leave the house just look at the internet, I know you have it because you are reading my mind. Everywhere you turn someone wants you money, or they want to show you how to live the "American Dream...to be rich and have all the material stuff you will never need". Of course you only need to pay $39.95 for the get rich plan. It used to be $19.95 but the price has been adjusted for inflation.

Again there is nothing profound about this, it is just common sense. The truth is, money comes and goes. Sometimes you have it and sometimes other people have it. The more one focuses on it the more that individual loses sight of the good in life. Too much time is spent in pursuit of the "Almighty Dollar". It invades every thought and every conversation you have. You begin to lose sight of the important things of life. It interferes with your spirituality. To borrow some words from a Charlie Daniels song "...Your bible is a checkbook and your church is a bank, you don't believe in charity and you don't give thanks; for what you've got..."

God provides if you let Him. Thank Him for what you have. Don't resent Him for not making you rich. Mammon is a very real entity and the pursuit of him and that which he represents only causes heartache and hardship. Look at the oil industry, they have sold their souls for mammon's glory and we suffer. They will have their reward in the end. Personally I would rather live in poverty now than spend a minute of eternity where the unrepentant rich man will end up.

Don't take my word for it, look around. See what people are willing to do for money. They steal, cheat, lie, and even kill. They start wars. They cut the funding to the schools so they can convince the people that a tax increase is o.k. and then they vote themselves a raise (who's gonna vote no to that? except maybe the last guy to vote when he sees that the "yeas" already have it. Then he can be noble and say "I voted no to that" he says pompously).

The bottomline is that money only gets in the way of happiness. Mammon and his master hate you and they love to see you infatuated with them. Whatever it takes to pull your eyes away from Jesus. They cheer, and when you die in your greed; they dance on your grave at the thought of having you suffer the same fate that they are destined for.

Mammon owns this world, from Walmart, to Exxon, to Proctor and Gamble, to the Fed. He even has his own tele-evangelists that preach that god wants you to be rich. They serve the wrong god. Jesus wants us to have a relationship with Him and to have faith in Him in our every need. If your faith is in your checkbook or your credit card, He is not there. Remember this, money is merely a tool to gather the things that you need to survive in this world don't focus on it just use it.