Consider the lilies of the field

I got a comment:

You know, I have struggled recently with this same issue. Jesus cast devils out of a man, releasing them into pigs at the devil’s request. Seems like devils hate water for some reason and ironically ended up in the drink anyway. The local economy was apparently ruined as the pigs (large #) were owned by someone, were fed by someone, cared for by someone, accounted by someone, and sold to someone. Jesus seemed to not care about the local economy which may have been a demonic economy.

I think that words are far more powerful than most understand (Death and life are in the power of the tongue). Jesus seems to have cared for this hopelessly demonized person who I would guess had been often cursed by the townies for example: he will never amount to anything-same as his mom who was worthless, as was his father who was worthless, nothing but a drunk and drug addict etc. and cursed by his own thoughts and words, nobody loves me, nobody wants me, I am worthless, let me eat worms. Jesus, at the Fathers (?) request cast out these offensive, warlike, whiney devils resulting in the man being “fully clothed and in his right mind”. My question remains: Why did the creator of the universe hold the personal property of others in such low regard. Maybe the intent of Jesus was instruction to his guys as to how to deal with even large numbers of the enemy’s forces. I hate idols and I hate sin. In his service, Bill

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Recall Matthew Chapter 6:

16 Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
17 But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face;
18 That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.
19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
22 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!
24 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.
25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
29 And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
30 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

Jesus was apparently accustomed to the discipline of asceticism. However, unlike typical ascetics, Jesus sometimes took part in feasts and even provided feasts. The Gospels don’t provide a lot of detail about how much immediate control Jesus had over spirits, or over his own personal energy, but there are various passages which suggest that Jesus did not feel as if he were in immediate control of paranormal events – e.g. Luke 8:46 and elsewhere – “And Jesus said, Somebody hath touched me: for I perceive that virtue is gone out of me.” Jesus was apparently in the grip of power that operated to heal without his conscious will. See also, Jesus’ comments in the Garden of Gethsemane.

It seems to me that Jesus experienced the mortal world as entirely miraculous, entirely dominated by spiritual causes. In such a world, attempting to calculate property values would be nonsense. The only realistic strategy would be to disregard mortal calculations (what shall we eat? what shall we wear?) and trust entirely in spirit.