Two deer were fighting with each other and got their horns locked. A hunter came along and killed them. Our nation is like the deer. We have our horns locked and we can’t get anything accomplished. There are plenty of hunters in this world willing to prey upon a weak and divided America.
In my post last week I wrote of my concern for this nation’s economy and how our banking system has to be reformed. Thomas L. Friedman’s column of Feb 2 in the New York Times, “When Politics Meets Economics” stated that the bankers are telling the lobbyist and lawmakers to resist any serious reform. The bankers are acting as if the crash in the fall of 2008 never happened. If the U.S. dollar becomes worthless this country we will be in serious trouble. Forty percent of every dollar our federal government spends is borrowed. We can’t go on like this and yet we do.
The Bible tells the story of Hezekiah, King of Judah in 2 Kings 20: 12-19. He had been ill and Merodach-Baladan of Babylon sent Hezekiah letters and a gift upon hearing of his illness.
Verse 13: Hezekiah received the messengers and showed them all that was in his storehouses— the silver, the gold, the spices and the fine oil—his armory and everything found among his treasures. There was nothing in his palace or in all his kingdom that Hezekiah did not show them.
The prophet Isaiah went to Hezekiah and after questioning him:
Verse 16: Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of the Lord: 17 The time will surely come when everything in your palace, and all that your fathers have stored up until this day, will be carried off to Babylon . Nothing will be left, says the Lord. 18 And some of your descendants, your own flesh and blood, that will be born to you, will be taken away, and they will become eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.”
19 “The word of the Lord you have spoken is good,” Hezekiah replied. For he thought, “Will there not be peace and security in my lifetime?”
Is that this generation’s answer? Are we hoping it will not happen in our lifetime? We have to unite and quit devouring our future by piling up this massive debt. We can either sacrifice today or suffer tomorrow.
