God Gives Every Bird its Food

God Gives Every Bird it’s food but he does not throw it into its nest.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

God the Father told Adam he cursed the ground “FOR THY SAKE,” causing it to bring forth thorns and thistles explaining to Adam he would eat bread by the sweat of his own face.  (Genesis 3:17-19)  As the children of Adam, we work to sustain ourselves.  This requirement makes us stronger and more capable.  As we enjoy the fruits of our labors, we learn lessons:

1)   cause and effect

2)   self-discipline

3)   competence

4)   joy of achievement

5)   confidence in facing obstacles and challenges

6)   ability to help, guide and lift others

7)   peace of mind

8)   perseverance

9)   strength in the face of adversity

10)         ability to recognize what is of actual value

11)         gratitude to the Father

12)          eternal perspective.

I believe Our Heavenly Father designed our life on earth to teach us to become more like He is: to gain wisdom, strength and understanding.  The earth was cursed FOR OUR SAKE because working to sustain ourselves is a blessing that yields personal growth.   God intended man to work to sustain himself and to reap the benefits of his labor.  Those benefits include the ability to share and help others to also become self-sufficient. 

Any government that takes from the laborer to buy votes is operating contrary to divine principles established by a wise and loving God.  Politicians who claim the right to take anything earned by targeted citizens in order to distribute it through bureaucrats to whom they choose will destroy a nation. 

My husband and I are in our sixties.   We have worked steadily all our lives and raised a large family through intense labor.  We cared for my parents into our home when my invalid father was diagnosed with cancer and my mother still lives with us a year after his death.   We paid off our home but bought a home for a divorced daughter and her three children.  We are financially helping another daughter whose husband’s company went bankrupt leaving him without employment.  We continue to work to try support ourselves and these family members NOT EXPECTING THE GOVERNMENT to help us.  HOWEVER, the ever-increasing TAX BURDEN makes it increasingly difficult to use the benefits of our own labor to sustain our family.

Does anyone honestly think taxing people into poverty so their money can be distributed among bureaucrats leaving a trickle-down fraction to toss into the nest of people who did NOT earn it--benefits anyone but the bureaucrats?

God taught Adam to work despite the thorns and thistles in order to eat.  God also teaches to GIVE and INSPIRE and HELP those in need.  Politicians who glut themselves on the labors of the people they were elected to represent and then have the AUDACITY to take what we have honesty earned to create their powerbase and impose their vision of utopia on their constituents are NOT following the wisdom and commandments of God.  In the end we will all reap what we sow.  (Job 4:8)