Did you know that the Bible provides the principles of a good economy? Moreover, it warns against idleness and corruption too. What America is experiencing, and will continue to suffer from in the immediate future, is an increase in the cost of goods and services due to the debasement of our currency. Why has this happened? Because we've grown to love money instead of being focused on productivity.
Great and small, rich and poor...we've become convinced that we live in a "consumer" economy. Remember, it's the "love of money" that causes problems for us, not the love of productivity and service through our talents to the glory of the Lord. The love of money is the love of irresponsible wealth; it's the gain of money without the work of producing goods and services needed by our neighbor. And a society that loves money is a covetous society that will demand its government produce money for it. Hence the printing of money, which is the source of inflation. After all, you can print money, but you can't just print real businesses and wealth.
To stop the inflation America must turn from its sin and repent of its covetousness. It must humbly embrace the biblical standard of wealth, which is:
1. Be productive
2. Earn money through that productivity
3. Save
4. Invest
Any other so-called path to wealth is a lie. This inflation we're experiencing is the first head winds of an economic hurricane soon to make landfall.