Showing posts with label Impressions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Impressions. Show all posts

Friday, November 20, 2009

Transparancy and Honesty

The fixes to the economic and political issues we face as a nation and a world are these two words. The problem is that they can not be force from with out, and change does not come from with in without help. With out a true revival of moral a force from with in us, a true second birth of the Holy Spirit, we and our leaders are doomed to be moving from crisis to crisis, crying "Peace and Safety" yet, to finish St Paul's Thought, destruction comes up on. We need a focus on the truly moral and not on our selfish ambition, not on the gain we can get by "gaming" those less able to defend them self.

It is written "Weep and Wail, Oh Rich man, the Wages you have cheated the workmen cry to heaven" (James 5:1,2) and it is also written in the Bible that the merchant weep and mourn over the destruction of Babylon, for they have no one else to sell their wares to (sound familiar, does it not). We have been arrogant, selfish and pridful, now we are paying the price for our communal lack of humility and

Saturday, September 12, 2009

An Angry World is never correct.

 The world seems to be filled with anger and hatred, a cancer that seems to be growing by the day.  Protest that are filled with a disregard for others and a desire to increase self, both on the 'left' and 'right'.  There is a tearing of the social contract, the covenant that is truly need and ordained by the Lord almighty, that is the bedrock of the civil order.  

We say that we seek answers to vexing issues but have no desire to find any but those that we have already decided is correct.  We have no use for those who we disagree with us and treat them with disdain.  Generally we are treating those around us and those we will soon need with a disrespect and even hatred simply because we have a trivial  misunderstanding.  We seek to bring increase to ourselves and those who agree with us, leaving all others to there fate.  Greed is ruling us and can destruction and the judgment of the Lord be far behind??