America - Slaves to the lender
If you knew you were going to lose your job tomorrow, would you sleep well tonight? If you are one of the minority of people in the United States that actually has an emergency fund put aside, chances are you’d answer, “Yes”.
What if you knew that the economy was going to fold completely and you were not going to be able to find another job for six months, would you loose any sleep in that time period?
My guess is that most of us would answer “Yes, at some point I would loose at least a little sleep”. While I have faith that Christ will provide and take care of me, I know at some point along the journey my faith would waiver if ever so slightly. The rising demands and responsibilities of taking care of my family, paying for food, clothing, and our mortgage would get to me and I would wake up at least a little less rested at some point.
Playing this scenario in my mind, the biggest burden I would face would be my mortgage. If the economy collapsed I could probably not easily sell my house yet I would be responsible for the consistent payments. Moving in with family or friends would not release this obligation. I am bound by my debt as a servant to the lender. As Proverbs 22:7 says
Pro 22:7 The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower servant to the lender.
If I had credit card debt, car loans, school loans, or other consumer debt my situation would be even worse. My age group would actually be one of the worse off, according to this article which states
Younger people may not look poor. They have more stuff than ever — more valuable houses, cars and other assets. But they are so much deeper in debt than their parents — student loans, credit cards, mortgages, car loans — that their net worth has shriveled.
With the youth, the future of this country, being more and more bound to the lender its shaping decisions everyday, creating a pattern of slavery and reducing our freedoms.
The ironic part is that most people don’t even realize the freedom they are giving up. Having never lived a life without debt, they don’t know what it would allow them to do. They are stuck in the system, forced to work themselves to the bone to maintain what the have built up.
As a result of their decisions American Christians are bound alike with non-Christians in this cycle of debt and kept from 100% dedicating themselves to a life of serving Christ. What would The Church look like if the Christian American’s were debt free?
August 18th, 2008 at 10:07 am
You should see my most recent post on the Liberty Dollar. Not necessarily the solution to the problem, but atleast an interesting entity.
The federal reserve system has made all Americans slaves to the lender. We are all under a fiat currency controlled by the big bankers.
I work with a muslim man, and apparently muslims are not allowed credit except in extreme emergencies. He bought his car outright and has no debt. Muslims might be legalistic about it, but Christians tend to ignore fiscal prudence all together as it is outlined in the Bible.
Truly, I so often find it’s the same Christians who say we have a patriotic and Christian duty to vote who are apathetic about restoring the Constitution in the USA.
Did you know that the Constitution actually forbids any money except silver and gold coinage?
Pray for America (and lobby for the Constitution)