One thing I enjoy is a good baseball game. I like to be in the stands watching it live with a diet-coke and a loaded hotdog! I like baseball games so much that a couple of years ago me and three other church members went to see the Cubs play at Wrigley field, then on to Milwaukee that night to see the Brewers, and finally the next day to St. Louis for the Cardinals… that was so much fun!
I feel like I’m at a baseball game with this whole Government Stimulus Package Deal. I’m a spectator with a vested interest as much as a fan can have… but I don’t have any way of making the game go in a certain direction because I’m not on the field. I’m yelling but my voice is covered up by rhetoric from both sides.
I hear the crack of the bat and watch with expectation as the ball sails high and far… only to be caught on the warning track…almost a homerun but just another out. The game seems to be going back and forth… yes it will help our country…no it won’t help our country. It will help us avoid a depression…no it will only prolong the ebbing tide toward a depression.
I find it amusing here in the 7th inning stretch that government thinks it can outwit God! God sets forth in His Word principles that can help a nation be blessed… but we have for too long forfeited those blessings and presumed upon His grace. Both sides have quit playing by the rules and are now making them up as they go…
In this hour of desperation… it seems as though our nation and its people have called for Mighty Casey to come to bat… they have put their hopes on some miracle swing that will align the markets, banks, jobs, and financial systems. It seems the last time I read the story of Casey and the Bat things didn’t go so well…
For Christians we trust in our GOD! We know that HE WILL care and meet the needs we should have… and, in the midst of the dark and gloomy landscape MORE than meet our needs… just to show the people, the government, that GOD is still on HIS throne!
It’s the bottom of the ninth… time for another Diet-Coke and Hotdog!
Jeff Beshears
WEll Basball, I could tell you a story about the cubs, ask me sometime and I will tell you who I know that played for them. I Like the other team, I too have a problem with the so called help the country bill! It will not work, Only God will help us when is this goverment going to grow up? and go to God as our forefathers did. What a mess they have put us in. May God help them. Just one more thought!!
Comment by Linda Summers — February 19, 2009 @ 2:03 pm |