The knowledge of this world has been atomized. All that exists for the vast majority of the population is the visible world. They have denied the spiritual and therefore they are left with acting in the immediate moment. This is the thinking of an animal. Denying the spiritual leads to denying foresight. Foresight is the ability of planning ahead. The world has become atheist in denying God’s existence.
Romans 8:29 reads, "For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren." God is Spirit. God’s Spirit is not merely His being but also encompasses His thinking and acting aspects. God, being the Creator of all things, has built into everything His definitions. He knows all things beforehand because He has built into everything their limitations. He has preordained all things to work within predictable i.e., defined limits. God’s preordination gives us a predictable world.
God’s law predestinates all things. His law limits all things in advance. All things have been preordained in advance because they all follow patterns that have been previously established by God. Demonstrating wisdom then becomes applying God’s law to all situations. Because God is omniscient, we can rest assured that by following His law that we will make the right decision in all instances. Foreknowing is the equivalent of foresight. We can foresee because we can foreknow.
We are living in a world where God’s law has been rejected by man. This means that God’s predestination has also been rejected and now man’s most visibly powerful institution, the civil government, has become the determiner of all things. The civil government uses its power of taxation to provide welfare programs for certain citizens. In other words, the government discriminates based upon being in poverty (government defined), reaching a certain age (Social Security and Medicare) etc.
In an editorial piece the Detroit Free Press was discussing heat costs for the upcoming winter. The government has a program called the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program. This program is designed to aid government defined poor working families. This editorial made the following statement, "This is not a welfare program, and in fact, welfare generally provides more utility assistance. The long-term goal of trying to prevent welfare dependency means some aid is essential for low income families to meet their basic needs, such as for food and heat. Otherwise, workers may have no choice but to fall back on welfare simply to keep their children warm."
Of course, this is a welfare program that will make these government defined poor working families dependent upon government assistance. If the government provides assistance, then those seeking this aid will do so every year. They will apply for it every year because it is available to them. They will not learn how to budget their money so that they can pay for any heating bill increases. Everyone should know that utility bills are higher in winter and should make adjustments to their budgets to reflect this fact.
Welfare programs essentially destroy the ability of those who receive it to learn to plan ahead. In fact, it is senseless to plan ahead if you know that the government is going to provide for you. One can live in the immediate moment without any foresight knowing that the government will come through for them and why try and improve your position because if you do then you will not qualify for the assistance. Once a person accepts government welfare, he will not prepare for the future.
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