This may be the best thing that’s happened for us since the Great Depression.
What?
Are you nuts?
You just don’t understand!
You're naive!
You smoked too much dope in the '70s.
Anybody hear our parents or grandparents talk about the Great Depression? The main thing I remember my Mother's saying is, “Times were hard. But we had each other.”
Hmmm. “Each other.” Do we have each other now?
Well, we’ve got a hi-def TV in every bedroom.
We’ve got a car for every man, woman and child in America.
We’ve all got an iPhone, a Bluetooth and a pair of the latest sneakers.
And we've got enough blubber to carry us through half the winter.
But do we have each other?
Wellllll... Not so much.
Look, there’s always something to worry about. Anybody who's worked in the news business knows it's really the “gloom and doom” business.
I have one of those Bibles with really wide margins so you can take notes. In mine, I’ve occasionally jotted down some major event that was going on at the time that had me worried. The time in 1998 when I got crossways with the local newspaper gossip columnist and worried myself silly about getting fired.
I didn’t.
Then there was the autumn of ’06 when it looked like we might lose our house. I worried and worried and worried.
We lost the house. But God provided. All the worry was really unnecessary.
There was the autumn of ’07 when I worried about losing my wife to lung cancer.
I did. And I survived.
You talk about worrying!! Loss of spouse is about as intense as it gets!
And I survived. And so will you.
Whatevertheheck happens with the world's economy, you will survive.
What I'm about to say is going to sound like heresy: we needed some mid course correction. When you've got too much stuff for too long a time, you start thinking goofy thoughts. Like stuff is important. And that you're responsible for your getting the stuff. “Me! Me! Me! I did it!!! I'm Master of the Universe.”
Proverbs 30:8-9 makes an excellent point: “Give me neither poverty nor riches, but give me only my daily bread. Otherwise, I may have too much and disown you and say, 'Who is the Lord?' Or I may become poor and steal and so dishonor the name of my God.”
We've done some of both of those, haven't we?
Well, it's about time to stop. And I believe it's going to stop. Real soon. I believe we're at the dawn of a worldwide revival. It's cloaked in an economic collapse. And it's not going to be pretty. But it's going to break us out of prison.
There is an entire generation that only knows holding out their pudgy little hands to the big daddy. The boss. The parent.
Another government program.
A new president is going to make it alllllll better!
Riiiiiiiight!
We're about to discover that all that ain't worth a “bucket of warm spit”, to quote former Vice President Cactus Jack Garner.
Get ready for some big changes. We're about to get to the point where God is all we got left.
And that ain't bad.
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3 comments:
I made a similar realization the other day when speaking with a family memeber who's "wind was taken out' and couldn't fund a bday present for me. I responded much in the same way you mentioned. We have each other. We get too caught up in the what and not the who. I think this economy will have one great impact, it just depends on the way you are going to let it impact you. I think you're brilliant and love these blogs. Keep it up...your biggest fan.
Excellent, excellent! This is exactly what I was talking about when I said you need to keep writing.
Keep on keeping on!
I totally agree!! Bring it on, Lord. Shake everything that can be shaken so that all there is to grab for is you!
Great post. The American dream has made us selfish and self righteous. We could use a clearer perspective.
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