Hi Blogger,
So George Osborne unveiled the cuts yesterday and today all the papers are asking who we are going to blame for it? The coalition government tries to say it's the previous Labour government. According to Jonathan Freedland from the Guardian Labour needs to say it's the banks we have to blame. The Independent are perhaps the closest to the truth when they say the only people we can blame really is all of us!
Christianity holds that the problem with the world is not out there but in here, with me. Would you have changed the system if you were a top earning banker? Would you have given up political power to tighten the regulations if you were a politician? I guess not. Not because you are particularly evil but because we are all equally greedy, ready to take as much as we can get if the opportunity allows.
The Apostle Paul, after unpacking his own inability to always do what is right summarises his and our situation with these words:
Romans 7:24,25: What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? Thanks be to God–through Jesus Christ our Lord!
Prayer: Lord Jesus Christ, I am the only one to blame for my moral and spiritual bankrupcy. Help me to see that I need more than a temporary bail-out. I need a complete change of character and identity that can only be found in you. Would you help me to see that your death on the cross was also my death and that the new life I can now live I can only live through faith in you. Amen
Rev. Kruger de Kock
London
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So George Osborne unveiled the cuts yesterday and today all the papers are asking who we are going to blame for it? The coalition government tries to say it's the previous Labour government. According to Jonathan Freedland from the Guardian Labour needs to say it's the banks we have to blame. The Independent are perhaps the closest to the truth when they say the only people we can blame really is all of us!
Christianity holds that the problem with the world is not out there but in here, with me. Would you have changed the system if you were a top earning banker? Would you have given up political power to tighten the regulations if you were a politician? I guess not. Not because you are particularly evil but because we are all equally greedy, ready to take as much as we can get if the opportunity allows.
The Apostle Paul, after unpacking his own inability to always do what is right summarises his and our situation with these words:
Romans 7:24,25: What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? Thanks be to God–through Jesus Christ our Lord!
Prayer: Lord Jesus Christ, I am the only one to blame for my moral and spiritual bankrupcy. Help me to see that I need more than a temporary bail-out. I need a complete change of character and identity that can only be found in you. Would you help me to see that your death on the cross was also my death and that the new life I can now live I can only live through faith in you. Amen
Rev. Kruger de Kock
London
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