Sandusky, Ohio 2007: Life is thrilling! Yes, we will have bumps, bruises, and breaks along the way. God would have us take care of ourselves in order to honor him in us. But, seeking ways to survive against God’s wrath is a self-seeking political scheme, and not a spiritual solution.

From Trent Ling:

The Obama administration and its “super-majority” Congress are pressing hard to reform the healthcare system in the United States.  The debating, compromising, maneuvering, and backroom real-time anticipatory vote counting rage as we speak.  Much of the argument centers on the supposed 50 million uninsured in the country, as well as assessing the dubious examples of the long-ago socialized European and Canadian healthcare systems.  Rhetoric steeped in mere words of fairness, distribution, entitlement, choice, quality, opportunity, and freedom customarily dot and dart the matter to death.

There are a large number of notable deceased politicians who had historically made the same arguments as are being waged today.  Like them, today’s politicians will also decease not having addressed the real issues.  In all of this, there are two real issues that will seemingly never see the discussion floor of a Congressional body or the considerate desk of a President.

For once, though purposely only scantly, we mention the two issues today.

1.  People Medicate Spiritual Problems

The Scriptures, replete with examples, teach that people are almost always going astray and coming up with their own bright ideas to cater to their very own wish lists, regardless of what God has to say about it.  With great restraint, let’s consider one very brief section of actual Scripture:

“Therefore, since Christ suffered in his body, arm yourselves also with the same attitude, because he who has suffered in his body is done with sin.  As a result, he does not live the rest of his earthly life for evil human desires, but rather for the will of God.  For you have spent enough time in the past doing what pagans choose to do–living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing and detestable idolatry.  They think it strange that you do not plunge with them into the same flood of dissipation, and they heap abuse on you.”  1 Peter 4:1-4.

These verses say more than we will ever address.  However, for today’s purposes, they certainly reveal as fraudulent the church-going, God-claiming blatherers on the healthcare debate.  How could any of what is being said today, be said with a straight face in light of these superior words about Christ and the noble call of his real followers?

Apart from an actual saving relationship with God, we are destined for great anxiety and trouble.  The Deuteronomy 28:64-68 verses are all-too-biographical for the human populations.  God has also sown us in weakness, which is supposed to be delightfully understood and endured.  1 Corinthians 15:43 and 2 Corinthians 12:10.  Rather than humble ourselves before our faithful Creator and commit to His direction, we seek medicines (among other equally impotent options) to reverse both how God lets us know we don’t have him (e.g., anxiety) and how God has made us (e.g., in weakness).  The United States has deeply plunged itself into this incredibly messy and syrupy flood of dissipation and is now left with a whiny , sticky, and demanding population and its commensurate expense report (in spiritual and dollar deficits) that can never be paid, unless people legitimately turn to God en masse.

Medicating spiritual problems is sinful and bankrupting.  This issue screams out in the healthcare debate, yet seemingly nobody hears it or echoes it.  Though most political operatives will claim “victory” once the legislative process finishes producing more trouble and confusion, the real matter of people paying through the nose for trying to medicate God’s wrath will not be broached at any time during this latest round of “reform.”  This shameful blindness will serve as God’s sign that He has been ignored yet again.

2.  God will not Contend with Man Forever

No matter how much money is taxed, printed, borrowed, or otherwise gotten, it will never be enough to outspend God’s decree, “My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal…”  Genesis 6:3.  People have to expire; God has decreed it.  People must cease looking to man to reverse God’s ruling as if it was an outdated legislative act or an opinion of a lower court.

People have become enamored of the idea that the life to live is the one on earth, and that that “life” can last longer and longer and longer and…  There is absolutely no way to fund the cutting edge healthcare of an ever-increasing elderly population, but apparently, nobody will say it, but God.  For, as God did at the Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1-9), He has confounded those bent on propagating lengthy earthly lives without authority from heaven.  God has frustrated entire financial systems, political alliances, literary terms and languages–not to mention the beleaguered and perplexing insurance industry itself.  All of this seems destined to crescendo into utter chaos, if not an all-out actual war.

Of course, the only solution to these two real issues is repentance.  But, don’t hold your breath because repentance never gets elected.

For further explanation of the relevance of this article, see “What’s This Got To Do with the Bible?”

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