10/25/2015
A REAL DEADLINE
GOAFS II: #157
REAL RED(GREEN)
LINE
OCTOBER 25,
2015
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inance has never been my forte. I round my checks in my check ledger
upwards to the nearest dollar. This way it usually comes close to balancing,
and any error is on the side of more money in the account than I expected. In
spite of that, this graphic in the October 17 edition of World Magazine caught my eye. Rarely has the mess we are in been so
simply and starkly revealed. What it says is mandatory (automatic and required)
government spending will become more than total government income in 2027. The
American Dream is burning and there is no indication that our politicians will
do anything to put out the fire, they are too busy fiddling to do the job they
were sent to Washington to do.
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ou can meditate on this chart and draw your own conclusions. I will briefly
tell you mine. The closest thing to a moral compass possessed by the majority
of the politicians in America in the last 50 years is the weathervane. What the
good, the beautiful and the true is determined by the way the wind is blowing,
today. Not by history, not by reason, and not by any objective standard. The
motto has become “Feelings are
knowledge, Opinions are truth and all
sincerely held opinions are equal.”
Electing the right politicians and appointing the right Supreme Court Justices
will not solve the problem.
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he solution lies in submission to the will of the Sovereign Creator and
Sustainer of all that is, all that ever was and all that ever shall be. The
solution is in the nature of the spiritual lives of those who professes, “Jesus
Christ is risen” and confess “Jesus Christ is Lord.” This includes the voters
as well as the politicians. Christian’s must repent and begin living a normal
Christian life—every day, all day long. In her book, Secure in the Everlasting Arm’s, Elisabeth Elliot sums up this life
in a single powerful sentence:
“The whole essence of the spiritual life consists in
recognizing the designs of God for us at the present moment.”
This pregnant statement bears with it obligations—to see, to understand,
and to obey. God dwells in the obedience of His people.
Many years ago, in a very difficult time, I wrote a brief reminder of these
things and put it on a bookmark.
CREED
Yesterday is a memory.
Tomorrow is a dream.
I will live today with full attention
To the reality
God brings me,
Fitting myself
to it
By doing what
needs to be done.
The great
worldview thinker, Abraham Kuiper is known for noting that God looks down on
His creation and claims: “There’s not a square inch of it that doesn’t belong
to Me.” Don’t imagine for a minute that Kuiper might have followed up on with a
wimpy exception about politics. You need only remind yourself that Kuyper took
politics seriously enough to serve as the Pime Minister of the Netherlands from
1901-1905.
Joel Belz, No apologies Needed—Politics Is Part Of Our
Teaching Assignment As Christians,
World, Nov 3, 2012
Jerry Sweers
GROWING OLD
AIN’T FOR SISSIES
Sailing directions for Pilgrims of the Heart.
Remembrances, reflections and rants
of an endangered species;
Curmudgensis Americanus
Bibliophilius
site: crmudgeon.blogspot.com
A REAL RED LINE
GOAFS II: #157
REAL RED(GREEN)
LINE
OCTOBER 25,
20115
|
F
|
inance has never been my forte. I round my checks in my check ledger
upwards to the nearest dollar. This way it usually comes close to balancing,
and any error is on the side of more money in the account than I expected. In
spite of that, this graphic in the October 17 edition of World Magazine caught my eye. Rarely has the mess we are in been so
simply and starkly revealed. What it says is mandatory (automatic and required)
government spending will become more than total government income in 2027. The
American Dream is burning and there is no indication that our politicians will
do anything to put out the fire, they are too busy fiddling to do the job they
were sent to Washington to do.
|
Y
|
ou can meditate on this chart and draw your own conclusions. I will briefly
tell you mine. The closest thing to a moral compass possessed by the majority
of the politicians in America in the last 50 years is the weathervane. What the
good, the beautiful and the true is determined by the way the wind is blowing,
today. Not by history, not by reason, and not by any objective standard. The
motto has become “Feelings are
knowledge, Opinions are truth and all
sincerely held opinions are equal.”
Electing the right politicians and appointing the right Supreme Court Justices
will not solve the problem.
|
T
|
he solution lies in submission to the will of the Sovereign Creator and
Sustainer of all that is, all that ever was and all that ever shall be. The
solution is in the nature of the spiritual lives of those who professes, “Jesus
Christ is risen” and confess “Jesus Christ is Lord.” This includes the voters
as well as the politicians. Christian’s must repent and begin living a normal
Christian life—every day, all day long. In her book, Secure in the Everlasting Arm’s, Elisabeth Elliot sums up this life
in a single powerful sentence:
“The whole essence of the spiritual life consists in
recognizing the designs of God for us at the present moment.”
This pregnant statement bears with it obligations—to see, to understand,
and to obey. God dwells in the obedience of His people.
Many years ago, in a very difficult time, I wrote a brief reminder of these
things and put it on a bookmark.
CREED
Yesterday is a memory.
Tomorrow is a dream.
I will live today with full attention
To the reality
God brings me,
Fitting myself
to it
By doing what
needs to be done.
The great
worldview thinker, Abraham Kuiper is known for noting that God looks down on
His creation and claims: “There’s not a square inch of it that doesn’t belong
to Me.” Don’t imagine for a minute that Kuiper might have followed up on with a
wimpy exception about politics. You need only remind yourself that Kuyper took
politics seriously enough to serve as the Pime Minister of the Netherlands from
1901-1905.
Joel Belz, No apologies Needed—Politics Is Part Of Our
Teaching Assignment As Christians,
World, Nov 3, 2012
Jerry Sweers
GROWING OLD
AIN’T FOR SISSIES
Sailing directions for Pilgrims of the Heart.
Remembrances, reflections and rants
of an endangered species;
Curmudgensis Americanus
Bibliophilius
site: crmudgeon.blogspot.com
10/17/2015
LABOR DAY--THE CROSSING
GOAFS II: #156
LABOR DAY –
THE CROSSING
OCTOBER 18,
2015
LABOR DAY
The Crossing
Anno Domini
Two Thousand Fifteen
The
sea was wide and deep--
Great
billows rolled like smoking mountains
bright from the East.
Her
boat was very small and very frail…
But,
Jesus
the sailor who walked upon the water
was in the boat with her--
This
same Jesus sailed with her all the way
to the Kingdom of His Father where
He led her to the King.
Surrounded
by myriads of angels and a great cloud
of witnesses,
She
was welcomed as a member of
The family.
HALLELUJAH! HALLELUJAH! HALLELUJAH!
She
now waits patiently,
with joyful anticipation,
For
that great day
when all those she left behind
will join her, in their resurrection
bodies,
to make themselves at home
in the New Heaven and New Earth--
For
endless ages upon ages, world without end.
AMEN!
AMEN!
AMEN!
Jerry Sweers
GROWING OLD
AIN’T FOR SISSIES
Sailing directions for Pilgrims of the Heart.
Remembrances, reflections and rants
of an endangered species;
Curmudgensis Americanus
Bibliophilius
site: crmudgeon.blogspot.com
