Luke 6:49 But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built a house upon the earth; against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great.
Oh Friends, what rather appropriate words of Jesus! The founding fathers of America must be weeping and moaning, shaking their heads in disgust and dismay, sadly wondering how a country they founded on the Word of God, ends up being the Devil’s Advocate. That’s because their descendants did not heed Jesus’ words to build upon a rock, but instead built upon the porous earth, and now the whole house of cards is tumbling down; the chickens are coming home to roost. Oh how the mighty have fallen! But Solomon said it long ago: ‘He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house: but he that hateth gifts shall live.’ (Provs.15:27) America is likened to a melting pot, but that’s a fallacy, the many different ingredients haven’t melted, they’re still there, large as life, making it more like a Guyanese pepperpot, with everything rolling around in their original form, seeking their own ends, and in the process creating a mass of contradiction and confusion. Yesterday I wondered, but today I’m sure; this is the hand of God. Too many self fulfilling prophecies to be mere coincidence: Several hurricanes, one right after the other, devastating their oil producing region; the same oil whose ever increasing price and dependency has recently been causing severe hardship around the world. Then it’s financial pillars are crumbling because they were built on greed and crookedness…let’s give them their respectable names; avarice and chicanery. The state of their economy is worsening every day, again through their greed, sending the high paying, productive jobs offshore to increase profits. And the leadership; hn! An arrogant, inefficient, fear mongering group of wealthy, powerful old boys, who have mired the country in disagreements and unwinnable wars around the globe, costing the country billions of dollars daily, while at home, the homeless, the jobless and widespread poverty dramatically increase. They never learned from the Vietnam debacle. And all this, in the midst of a Presidential Election that’s been turned into a Barnum and Bailey like circus, where the sex, race and other unimportant attributes of the candidates glean more attention than whether they can handle the real issues of homes, jobs, economic stagnation, financial ruin and lack of adequate health care. Oh Friends, why is there so much more style than substance in the greatest country the world has ever seen? And even if you don’t like what they stand for, you must admit, as America goes, so goes the rest of the world. Their culture, music, clothes, food and corporations still dominate the planet. Where else can you package worthless and overpriced goods and sell them to the rest of the world at exorbitant prices, thus artificially raising the wealth index? Only in America! Then the insatiable desire for more; more profits, power and size, spawned a whole host of new, unsound investments, all in the name of shareholder value, that’s today drowned in a sea of bankruptcy! And sadly, the ones who really drove these vehicles of doom won’t suffer many, if any reprisals, possibly come out better off, by selling the rights to their infamous exploits. But again, that’s only in America! Ah people, who knows where this will end? But as I tried to hammer home yesterday, the one thing we have going for us is HOPE; HOPE IN GOD! Hopefully, we’ll all rise like the Phoenix from our ashes, but that won’t happen unless, and until we all start building our personal lives on that HOPE IN GOD. It must begin with us. Building our finances and personal relationships on a solid foundation, not one based on greed and chimerical investments. Aided by the Holy Spirit, we can resist the enemy’s temptation and build our houses on a sturdy, unshakeable, unmoveable rock; a rock named Jesus. Much LOVE!…rock of ages, cleft for me…let me hide myself in thee…
Oh Friends, what rather appropriate words of Jesus! The founding fathers of America must be weeping and moaning, shaking their heads in disgust and dismay, sadly wondering how a country they founded on the Word of God, ends up being the Devil’s Advocate. That’s because their descendants did not heed Jesus’ words to build upon a rock, but instead built upon the porous earth, and now the whole house of cards is tumbling down; the chickens are coming home to roost. Oh how the mighty have fallen! But Solomon said it long ago: ‘He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house: but he that hateth gifts shall live.’ (Provs.15:27) America is likened to a melting pot, but that’s a fallacy, the many different ingredients haven’t melted, they’re still there, large as life, making it more like a Guyanese pepperpot, with everything rolling around in their original form, seeking their own ends, and in the process creating a mass of contradiction and confusion. Yesterday I wondered, but today I’m sure; this is the hand of God. Too many self fulfilling prophecies to be mere coincidence: Several hurricanes, one right after the other, devastating their oil producing region; the same oil whose ever increasing price and dependency has recently been causing severe hardship around the world. Then it’s financial pillars are crumbling because they were built on greed and crookedness…let’s give them their respectable names; avarice and chicanery. The state of their economy is worsening every day, again through their greed, sending the high paying, productive jobs offshore to increase profits. And the leadership; hn! An arrogant, inefficient, fear mongering group of wealthy, powerful old boys, who have mired the country in disagreements and unwinnable wars around the globe, costing the country billions of dollars daily, while at home, the homeless, the jobless and widespread poverty dramatically increase. They never learned from the Vietnam debacle. And all this, in the midst of a Presidential Election that’s been turned into a Barnum and Bailey like circus, where the sex, race and other unimportant attributes of the candidates glean more attention than whether they can handle the real issues of homes, jobs, economic stagnation, financial ruin and lack of adequate health care. Oh Friends, why is there so much more style than substance in the greatest country the world has ever seen? And even if you don’t like what they stand for, you must admit, as America goes, so goes the rest of the world. Their culture, music, clothes, food and corporations still dominate the planet. Where else can you package worthless and overpriced goods and sell them to the rest of the world at exorbitant prices, thus artificially raising the wealth index? Only in America! Then the insatiable desire for more; more profits, power and size, spawned a whole host of new, unsound investments, all in the name of shareholder value, that’s today drowned in a sea of bankruptcy! And sadly, the ones who really drove these vehicles of doom won’t suffer many, if any reprisals, possibly come out better off, by selling the rights to their infamous exploits. But again, that’s only in America! Ah people, who knows where this will end? But as I tried to hammer home yesterday, the one thing we have going for us is HOPE; HOPE IN GOD! Hopefully, we’ll all rise like the Phoenix from our ashes, but that won’t happen unless, and until we all start building our personal lives on that HOPE IN GOD. It must begin with us. Building our finances and personal relationships on a solid foundation, not one based on greed and chimerical investments. Aided by the Holy Spirit, we can resist the enemy’s temptation and build our houses on a sturdy, unshakeable, unmoveable rock; a rock named Jesus. Much LOVE!…rock of ages, cleft for me…let me hide myself in thee…
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