“The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.” Cicero, 55 B.C.
How many times a day do we hear how Washington is out of control, How Washington can’t balance a budget, How the economy is so bad, How the Democrats want to spend other people’s money, How the Republicans are a bunch of greedy rich people. Do you know what all those people in congress, the senate, and the White house have in common? They were ELECTED. They didn’t magically get those jobs. WE THE PEOPLE elected them there. It doesn’t matter if you voted for them or not, or didn’t vote at all. They were elected. We have been call the greatest nation, the wealthiest nation, but we are so over our heads in debt, we don’t know what way is up. Debt used to be a bad thing. Only “poor” people used to be in debt. Now debt is a “tool” that everyone is told to use. But that is not what God says. Proverbs 22:7 says “The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is slave of the lender” (ESV) God told his people to be a nation of lenders, not a nation of borrowers. Many people continue to look to the government to bail them out. Our recovery will not begin until we have a declaration of dependence on the Almighty God. North Point Community Church is doing a series entitled the Recovery Road. I encourage everyone to watch this series.
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