Our nation is currently consumed with the talk of economic stimulus packages, layoffs,and foreclosures. Our things and standards of living are in danger.
It seems that the gods of this world are stumbling once again. As a nation we have looked to this world system for our security and sustenance. We have forsaken the true and living God who owns all things and have worshipped the creature instead of the creator. We neglect to give God thanks for the abundance that we do enjoy and instead continually clamor for more, bigger and better. We are drunk with the wine of self-indulgence and excess and we cry out unashamedly "God Bless America"!
Can God be mocked? Will we not reap what we sow? It is evident what we treasure as a nation. We treasure the corruptible things of this temporal life. If we sow to the flesh will we not reap corruption?
What is the remedy for such a skewed worldview? Where would God have us look and where would He focus our attention?
There is an answer in 1Tim.6:17-19, here it says, "Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not high-minded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;
That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distibute, willing to communicate;
Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life."
Is this not our greatest need today? To seek God's ways, to be "rich in good works", to seek those things that have a bearing on eternal life. The emphasis must be on those things that are certain rather than uncertain. We, as a nation, have become so entrenched in the present and the perishing that we have lost sight of what really matters. We have forgotten the question posed by Jesus, "What shall a man give in exchange for his soul?"
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