|
|
|
 Never Ending Deficits?
The Federal deficit for 2009 is projected by the Congressional Budget Office to be 1.587 trillion dollars or better: 1,587,000,000,000! What does this number mean? Well if a trillion dollars was in 100 dollar bills on pallets it would be over the size of a football field stacked over 7 feet tall. (At least according to one guy on the internet) A mathematician said a million seconds is about 11 ½ days. A billion seconds is 32 years. A trillion seconds is almost 32,000 years! I read a trillion dollars would buy all goods and services produced in Australia for a year. If you like stacking dollar bills a trillion would get you a stack that’s about 1/3 of the way to the moon. And our governments deficit spending for this year alone is more than a trillion dollars. At least it makes your student debt look a little smaller!
One politician said that if you spent a billion dollars a day since the days Jesus walked the earth you wouldn’t get to our deficit. That’s when I took these numbers and started imagining. How big is the human deficit? We should have a surplus of righteousness and goodness filling the world from one end to the other. But truth be told we’ve been sinning since the world began. History documents some of the more famous sins but skips all the real negatives that families do to each other, what we do to ourselves. It became very obvious that I would be more capable of understanding our federal deficit than the sin deficit. This deficit goes up every day and is added to by earth’s 6 billion plus people you and me sadly included. How will the books ever be balanced? Well maybe the Chinese have enough money to bail out the USA but only God can fix this deeper debt. Only he can credit our accounts with what we need while erasing the deficits that are destroying us. Take a moment to really think about these verses and apply them to your life.
“What does the Scripture say? ‘Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.’” Romans 4:3
“But where sin increased, grace increased all the more.” Romans 5:20
|
