by Marie Devine

Created on: March 24, 2008

Struggling, underdeveloped countries are looking for solutions. They do not feel there is an answer in their circumstance, so they expect that independence will be the panacea that the word implies. Often it is television that fosters a desire to be like other nations. They see the glamour and the riches, and expect that if they were further along, they should have that too.

The panacea illusion is being broken now with pollution, global warming, energy crisis, financial woes and diseases in developed nations being spotlighted. The reality is even coming on the developed nations as they try to figure out how to stop killing themselves with all their technology. Between automobile accidents, pollutions and diseases, they are loosing more people than they are in the wars.

All sacred writings warn against going after riches; those that follow the wisdom of God escape the problems of bondage and stress of the modern culture, as well as the destructions to air, water, land and food.

In Leviticus 26 God promises "rain in due season" to the obedient, as He does in other sacred writings. "Rains come from the performance of laws". Rain makes the difference between poverty and true prosperity. Rain can grow all your needs. Fruit and nut trees and bushes and vegetables provide an abundance that cares for you and the poor, sick and elderly in your communities. It gives a unifying component to life, having the families staying together to enjoy the retirement lifestyle and enjoying the children as they are taught to garden. It is a lifestyle passed down generation to generation without polluting the land and water.

The goal of life is not employment; the goal is retirement in a garden paradise where useful animals provide fresh milk and eggs to mix with grains, fruits and vegetables to make wonderful banquets to be enjoyed by strangers passing through, your families, and the people of the community.

People can live in independence without fighting for a change of government. The true independence of God adds no sorrow to it. When you start bringing in institutions to make you prosperous you lose the freedom you sought and you soon find more bondage and separation from your families.

Jesus said, "I know your works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but you are rich)" Revelation 2:9. To others, Jesus said, "You say you are rich and increased with goods and have need of nothing, and you know not that you are wretched and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:" Revelation 3:17.

Jesus saw through the illusion of panacea and gives us a warning to be content letting God grow our needs in a garden paradise.

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