duality?

I know that I've talked about this before, but I have been thinking more about it lately. The more I think about it, the more I see it affecting all sorts of stuff. 

It came up in my mind the other day when I heard an interview about the problems with our economy. The guy was a christian that worked with the poor somewhere in New England. He said the reason it was messing with people so much was because the economy had become a God for our culture, and when it fails people's God fails.

I started thinking, "I don't know anyone who would say that money or the economy is their God." But the next thing that came to mind was, "I suppose that a lot of people's security, or hope comes from money, and really isn't that what Gods are for?" That thought made me think another thought, "there are a lot of people in that camp--the camp of looking to money for things Gods provide--I find myself in that camp sometimes, how does that happen?" (sometimes my thoughts run through my head really fast like that). Finally I landed on one thought, "it's hard to find security and hope in a spiritual God for physical things. For some reason I want to separate them."

This brings me to the aforementioned point that affects a lot of stuff. With the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob there is no separation of physical and spiritual. They are wrapped up together, and he is equally concerned about all of it. That God is concerned about my quality of life physically and spiritually. That means I can trust him with my money just as much as my sin, I can trust him with my physical health just as much as my emotional health. That's what makes him such a good God, it's why he's been around for so long.