$800,000,000,000.00 is a lot of money. It is an even bigger number coming on the heels of $700,000,000,000.00 that was approved last year. $1,500,000,000,000.00 approved spending in less than a year, in addition to the government’s annual budget. By comparison the federal budget for 2008 was $2,900,000,000,000.00 which means our government is assuming debt in an amount greater than half the annual budget in an attempt to save our economy. There have been a lot of people crying ‘foul’, after all, why should the very people who made bad choices and got us in this mess be bailed out? I know; I was there. Now I am on the side of do what it takes to resolve the problem and get us going in the right direction.
I sometimes wonder if this is the same discussion that took place in Heaven some 2,000 years ago. I can picture it now, God is about to send a part of himself to earth. While on earth God will breath, eat, drink and live just as his greatest creation: man. However, while here He will have a greater purpose; He will live a life free from the sin caused by our lust and desire. Not that He will be shielded from it but that He will choose to rise above it; creating an acceptable sacrifice for our sins. I can hear the angels now, ‘Why should you go?’ ‘Why not just destroy them again, like you did before?’ ‘How much is too much to pay for these people who have chosen to do wrong?’
Those are all valid points. We are guilty, we are the ones who got ourselves in the trouble and God, showing His grace through kindness toward us sent His son to bail us out. There is no greater bailout, nor people who deserve it less. We have been bought from death that we might live through Him.
The recommended reading that correlates with this week’s thought is Ephesians 2.
