Monday, June 16, 2014 We are now 10 years later: deeper in debt, less neighborly, more anger, rage, crime and unrest.....
"Therefore, everyone who hears
these words of Mine and acts on them, may be compared to a wise man who built
his house on the rock. And the rain fell, the floods came, the winds blew
and slammed against that house; and yet it did not fall, for it had been
founded on the rock. "Everyone who hears these words of Mine and
does not act on them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the
sand. The rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slamm- ed
against that house; and it fell - and great was the fall." (Matthew
7:24-27).
Hey Gang: Solomon, the second
wisest man to walk this earth, wrote this warning to us: "The
prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and pay the
penalty" (Proverbs 22:3). This is not designed to give you
the hebby-jebees, but to remind you that we have always had economic booms,
busts, panics, bubbles and crises with us and there are predictions coming from
all fronts that we are nearing a major catastrophic breakdown in our economy.
One does not have to be a rocket
scientist to know, if you spend hundreds and thousands of dollars that you do
not have, it will not be long until the bill collectors and long strong arm of
the law will be standing on your doorstep. Now multiply that by an entity
the size of our government and you come up with a seventeen-trillion dollar-debt
that is climbing by billions each day.
Now add to that seven to twelve or as
many are saying, fifteen to seventeen percent unemployment, and more than half
of the citizens of this once great and very solvent country on food stamps and,
if you are objective in even a small way, you must realize "we are
spending more time rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic than trying to
fix the problem.
If I were sitting in the oval office
the first thing I would do is draft an order to the people of this country, as
Ronald Reagan did in his two inaugural speeches and challenge them with God's
words found in 2 Chronicles 7:14, "If My people who are called by
My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked
ways, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin and will heal their
land".
I would then do some research to find
out what some of the Presidents, who were blessed with good common sense, did
when confronted with such dilemmas. I would than carefully choose
people from the nation who were successful, who had what God required in His
servant-leaders: "First he must be beyond reproach, the husband of one
wife, temperate, prudent, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not addicted
to wine or pugnacious, but gentle, peaceable, and free from the love of money,
and power (Hainley addition)" (I Timothy. 2:2). I wonder how many who
sit in the nation’s power seats can pass this muster.
Soooo, my fine young friends and
neighbors, In the morning Scripture we see two very diverse attitudes - the
build-on sand folks, and the build on solid ground folks. Due to the many
ways we can hide our problems, in most cases they all look alike. But when the
rubber-hits-the-road, the rock and sand builders suddenly come to the surface.
I believe the parable of the ten
virgins is a warning to the rock builders - our government has been our worst
enemy, for we have subsidized the sand builders these many years and they are
totally unprepared for the crisis that is to come. You can take it to the bank,
if there are any banks open, they, the sand builders, will be on your doorstep
asking you to do as the government has done for them and give them your oil for
their lamps.
Blessings,
Gramps
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