The key to the whole problem is not to set your heart on riches. It's like we either are thinking about riches or thinking about how we can help others. The love of money is the root of all evil. No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. The natural man and spiritual man can't exist in the same space. I find myself jumping from plane to the other. I sometimes slide of the spirtual plane and find myself on the natural plane. This verse in Alma 1 shows what happens when a group of people actually get it. God blesses righteous union and equality.
30 And thus, in their prosperous circumstances, they did not send away any who were naked, or that were hungry, or that were athirst, or that were sick, or that had not been nourished; and they did not set their hearts upon riches; therefore they were liberal to all, both old and young, both bond and free, both male and female, whether out of the church or in the church, having no respect to persons as to those who stood in need.
31 And thus they did prosper and become far more wealthy than those who did not belong to their church.
When everyone works together, caring for each other, not setting their hearts on riches, wonderful things occur. I believe that God smiles down on such a group and blesses them with even more properity. I yearn for that day.
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