What is vertical economics?
First off, it’s not to be confused with voodoo economics.
Genesis 6 tells us: 8 And Noah found grace in the eyes of Jehovah.
Only after this does the Scripture describe the births of Noah.
9 These [are] births of Noah: Noah [is] a righteous man; perfect he hath been among his generations; with God hath Noah walked habitually.
And what is this births of Noah about? Is it only about his sons? Credit to the rabbis for seeing something very obvious. Righteousness is the posterity of Noah’s life lived in relationship with God.
Walking with God on an habitual or daily or moment by moment basis is the perfection God desires and the life blessed with grace. The perfection of Noah transforms his generations. As we are the generation of Noah, the light of Christ shines out through us as we walk with God. He is the sun and we are the stars. Grace is passed on through us into this world to change it. Righteousness isn’t transferred primarily by what we say but rather by walking with God, that is, knowing and loving Him in what we do.
Noah had first hand experience of the vertical economy. He lived it daily. The earth was corrupt and violent, yet Noah was not. God said the time had come for the end of all flesh. Flesh is earthly or horizontal. Walking with God is heavenly or vertical. God said, the time is come to destroy the earth and all the people who were corrupt along with it.
What was Noah doing as society got worse? He obeyed God. Noah built the ark which God would use to save him and his family. Obedience to Christ is salvation. If a man says he has faith but has no works, can that faith save him? Isn’t that what the book of James teaches?
The vertical economy is not about avoiding the world or world economies. God may lead us to do so, or He may not. Life in the Kingdom of God is about being obedient to the voice of Christ as we walk with Him. That means doing whatever He says. He may lead us to invest or to build or to write or to move or to do something else, but no matter, the return on our obedience is guaranteed and the growth of our investment, infinite.
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