I find myself from time to time listening to the Christian radio stations. One of the stations has more sermons and discussions concerning Christians, which is where I heard that God is allowing the recession to happen. When I first heard this I couldn't believe that some church leader would actually seize his moment at the pulpit to spout out some ridiculous super religious theory about the hand of God reaching down from the sky and emptying out the many coffers in which the entire banking system was based on. There are reasons to think this, but this was a full on sermon with what I heard seemed to be a pretty lengthy sermon with 12 points to it. The number of points doesn't really matter, but there was one thing that did convict me.
It went something like this, "do you understand why God has caused this recession? It is because God has seen that we have put our joy in something other than the great I Am." YEEOUCH! "Do you understand that God has ripped up your joy which you have rooted in worldly things - Money." It started an other image of Harry Potter where they were learning about Mandrakes, those screeching roots that paralyze anyone who hears them.
So what am I putting my joy in now? Am I even noticeably joyful? Do I find myself gripping since the economic downturn? Do I allow myself to get pulled by other's when they realize their joy has been ripped out? Am I holding tight to anything God is trying to uproot and expose? All these things to ask myself all because I was skeptical about believing that God has allowed a recession to happen to us in this day in age.
