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DESPITE
INFLATION-
You Can Solve
Your
Financial Worries
Here are facts you probably didn't know about your income.
F
INANCIAL worries seem to
plague us all!
In these inftationary times
nearly every one of us is engaged
in a constant struggle to make
ends meet. Financia! worries
seem constantly to bear us
down- rob us of real happiness
and joy! Why should this be?
There is a reason! You can be
free from fi nancia! worry!
What Most People Don't Know
Let me tell you something you
probably
don't know
al<out your
income.
If
there is anythi ng
people are jealous of in this peri–
od of rising costs, it is the money
they earn. They usually work
hard for it. And they want full
freedom in deciding for them–
selves what they do with it.
People say: "What
1
earn is
mine- 1 can do what
1
picase
with it!" But is the money you
earn really your own? Don't
be too su re. Listen to facts
about your income you probably
haven't known!
What you earn is not yours!
The man who says, "What 1 do
with the money
r
earn is nobody's
June/July 1980
by
Herbert W. Armstrong
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produced it-it be–
longs to me," is mistaken.
What you earn by work per–
formed, by services rendered,
from investments made,
is not
yours-not
any of it-that is, not
UNTIL-and
1
will have to explain
that "until."
There are two prior claims on
your income. One, of course, is
taxes.
But the
first
is Goo's claim.
Most people have never realized
this fact-but it is a fact. God
Almighty the living creator-ruler
of the universe claims it a ll–
every dollar- every pound–
every franc-every mark. Your
Maker who gives you the very air
you brea tbe tells yo u it a 11
belongs to Him, not to you!
But didn't you earn it? Didn't
you produce it?
Not exactly! Everything pro–
duced- money, and the things
that money can huy-comes out
of the earth. You didn't produce
the earth! God created that! You
merely applied certain energy in
thinking and in physical action to
that which God created a nd
owns. And where did the energy
you expended come from? You
didn't create it-you merely uti–
lized what God created and sup–
plied. God created even your
thinking processes.
God Almighty created not only
matter, but a ll force and energy.
God set them in
motion,
in the
laws of pbysics and chemistry.
He created the human mind; He
supplies even the energy used in
thinking a nd acting. Yes, all has
come from God!
lt
is God who sustains, pre–
serves in motion, guides and
directs, all the forc.es and ener–
gies. God is not merely a creator
of the long ago! God is tbe sus–
taining, directing, living ruler
overall, today! It's a simple fact
that, after all, it was God's labor
of original thinking and planning
and creatíng, and of continuous
sustaini ng and directing, that
really produces all.
Therefore God's claim to own–
ership of all you have thought
you produced or earned is valid.
lt
is prior to yours!
God Almighty says (Psalm
24:1-2): "Tbe earth is the Lord's
and the fulness thereof, the world
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