[Sorry this is so pessimistic, but we're in this together . . .]
The 2016 Pig Book has come out. Government waste in its most extreme and idiotic episodes. Misuse is among us and emphasizes the need for more timely and detailed media coverage of these abuses and much better and more judicial ways to oversee the administration of the spending of funds. All of the frittering of wealth in this country proves money's ability to corrupt, to debauch, an entire culture. Piggie-ness is utterly ugly when you stare into its gluttonous eyes.
The 2016 Pig Book has come out. Government waste in its most extreme and idiotic episodes. Misuse is among us and emphasizes the need for more timely and detailed media coverage of these abuses and much better and more judicial ways to oversee the administration of the spending of funds. All of the frittering of wealth in this country proves money's ability to corrupt, to debauch, an entire culture. Piggie-ness is utterly ugly when you stare into its gluttonous eyes.
Our muddy panorama, this pig sty, contains many other problems: "Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these" Galatians 5:19. We may not like it---we apparently wanted to divorce ourselves from it---but the Bible hit it right on the snout. When we ignore moral values and let our egos rule the pigpen, depravity slops all over everything. Let's face it: We are pigs.
We desperately need better stewardship. "The Sunday School teacher was finishing up her lesson. 'Do you know where little boys go if they don't put their money in the collection plate?' she asked. 'Yes, ma'am,' a boy blurted out. 'They go to the movies!' " Much of our humor is anchored in our weaknesses and piggie-ness. The battle between what we should do with our blessings and what we actually do with them continues forever unto every generation and each individual.
The depth of our financial debt is frightening and affects almost every aspect of our lives. It is now a massive shadow over our national pigpen that makes it difficult for us to see matters clearly and stifles our efforts to overcome it. Greed (and its sinful comrades) has destroyed our financial well-being, has made life itself in this environment much more precarious. It has placed dream after dream in jeopardy. But, all the other immoral slime is, perhaps, even more ruinous. We truly are on the edge of destruction as a nation if we can't turn it around.
Hope, I believe, is only available in a return to Biblical values. Some folks, obviously, reject this evan-GEL-ical nonsense immediately and completely . . . oh, well. Such is their choice and their freedom. But, for those who hear the truth in that remark, I challenge you to man up, to stand openly in support of God's truth. To live lives worthy of the Lordship of Jesus. To know that many hardships are coming as our world turns determinedly to slop. Clean it up wherever you can . . . keep your piece of land, your portion, as solid and tolerably clean as possible. And look to the Eastern sky!
The depth of our financial debt is frightening and affects almost every aspect of our lives. It is now a massive shadow over our national pigpen that makes it difficult for us to see matters clearly and stifles our efforts to overcome it. Greed (and its sinful comrades) has destroyed our financial well-being, has made life itself in this environment much more precarious. It has placed dream after dream in jeopardy. But, all the other immoral slime is, perhaps, even more ruinous. We truly are on the edge of destruction as a nation if we can't turn it around.
Hope, I believe, is only available in a return to Biblical values. Some folks, obviously, reject this evan-GEL-ical nonsense immediately and completely . . . oh, well. Such is their choice and their freedom. But, for those who hear the truth in that remark, I challenge you to man up, to stand openly in support of God's truth. To live lives worthy of the Lordship of Jesus. To know that many hardships are coming as our world turns determinedly to slop. Clean it up wherever you can . . . keep your piece of land, your portion, as solid and tolerably clean as possible. And look to the Eastern sky!
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