Article August 27, 2012 Issue

God's law of equality

Frederick R. Andresen

We are all concerned with balance. Whether it’s the businessman’s financial statements or the child’s wobbly bike-riding lessons, it’s about balance.

When I started my first business, I did not quite understand why balance was important. I thought that if the product met a need at a fair price and I advertised it, the buyers would flock to my door (or in this case, send checks to my post-office box). That didn’t happen.

I had only one part of the formula for success: the product. My money ran out quickly. I had a wife, two young children, and house payments, but no tangible source of supply. I would go to the post office, open my box, and—nothing. So I started to pray (why do we so often do this last?). What I turned to was the Apostle Paul’s admonition to the Corinthians: “Now therefore perform the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to will, so there may be a performance also out of that which ye have. For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not” (II Corinthians 8:11, 12). 