CRASH and BURN?

We human beings have the most amazing ways of digging deep holes! We have even better ways of pitching ourselves into those holes. Case in point....the current financial crises. A REALLY DEEP HOLE has been dug, and our government is doing its best to throw itself...and us I might add....into a bottomless pit.

Now, I will be the last to attempt to portray how it has come about...all the corruption, mis-management, or errant philosophies that have led us to this precipice. But one thing I know, men have an incredible propensity to be stupid!

WHY?

We are flawed..pure and simple. If there is any evolution going on it is de-evolution! The farther men, governments, and cultures separate themselves from their creator....the dumber we get. Worse, dumb men are too dumb to notice their dumbness. (Do I sound senical? Actually thought I was being quite realistic.)

The thing is, I count myself as part of the human race. In other words, when I have a moment when I actually think I can rule my own life, the dumb-stick comes out and puts a knot on my head. The plain truth is: I NEED JESUS! He took our dumb and died with it on a cross. He took my just and legal punishment for breaking God's moral/holy law, and died so that I could be set free. He offered the same for all men, all governments, and all cultures. All we have to do is turn from the dumb and accept the rule of the only true, qualified, experienced KING. It's called repentance from DUMB!

So, what happens if our wisdom-challenged legislators in Washington don't get the BIG Bail-out done before the Stock Market opens on Monday? Or... What happens if they do? Yikes! Either way, everything could come crashing down into another Great Depression. Does that frighten you? Should it?

I have found one, and only one truth. "I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken or his children begging for bread." (Psalm 37:25) Righteous you say? Who is righteous? According to the same Bible, none are righteous,no not one!" But, "he who knew no sin became sin for us that we might become the righteousness of God!" JESUS!!! When I am included in him, I am made righteous....not measured by some standard of legality, but because of faith in him and his gift.

Everything could crash, but if you know Jesus Christ, you will be provided for...and it won't be coming from Uncle Sam. Look to the real provider, the real keeper, the one who owns it all and has paid the debt.
Pastor Jim