THE ESSENTIAL MELT-DOWN

If there is one thing that we must learn from the current meltdown in the financial markets, and a shaking of the world’s economy, is that we cannot trust the various systems of this world. Our trust must be in our God. It is ironic that the starting point of this turmoil started in a country where the dollar note states “In God We Trust.” Yet that is exactly what we did not do. Instead we have placed our faith in money, and man’s ability (or rather clearly revealed now, his inability) to manage it.

A ‘melt-down” is probably the most accurate word to use. Before we can get pure gold, the ore has to be melted down in liquid form, and from this we will be able to extract a very refined state of the element. Our trust in the world’s system has melted down, and it is the correct time for us now to extract from this situation the pure kind of realities we need in order to overcome.

In the light of eternity, our money and material wealth are worth nothing, and cannot be carried forward into our future. Most of us know this for a fact. Yet, when it comes to living day by day, our worldview is framed by what we see in this world and what we work with in this world, even though we know that they will not last for eternity. We become dependent and in a large way have placed our trust in money in order to survive, even though we say we trust God.

What will last in eternity are the things of God, especially the Word of God. The Living Word of God is God Himself. In communicating to us, this Living Word comes to us in the written Word. God has allowed Himself to be understood in the written words of Holy Scripture. However, these written words are not to be understood only as coloured words printed on a white sheet of paper. Neither is it to be understood only as English, or any other human language. The Word, in written words, is more than just what we see on the pages of the Bible. They commit to us the very truth of God. The words in the Word are the truths of God, truths that last for eternity. When we believe these truths, we receive eternity into our lives.