Blessed Insurance
Hurricane Katrina Aftermath
W
hen asked why tired police and firefighters from New
Orleans were being sent to Las Vegas for R&R the Mayor told the reporter
“This is a party town, Get over it.” Now, I hate seeing people suffer as
much as anyone, but something is being missed in all this. The Bible says
the wise man builds his house on a rock, not in a swamp. If a swamp is all
you have ever known, it’s hard to imagine living anywhere else. Can I
suggest that everyone needs to think “higher?” Can I suggest loftier
thinking, or moving to higher ground? The first settlers of the New World
left Holland (with all it’s dikes and levees), and spoke of building a “city
on a hill.” They longed for something higher both politically and
spiritually. If we cannot think that “high” anymore, perhaps we should be
thinking at least in terms of a “land fill” rather than a swamp. Modern
technology has a way of masking reality. Jesus called it the “deceitfulness
of riches.” I believe it was the late Malcom Forbes who said, “The answer
to 99 percent of all problems is ‘Money.’”
The political gunfire and firefights have just begun.
Many are convinced that what we now have is a money problem, and we all know
how the government loves to spend money. How to house, clothe, re-educate,
and re-located a million people shall be more daunting than Moses trying to
get the Israelites to the Promised Land. (None of the Government
Administration made it, by the way,
for all the walking around in circles in the wilderness, except for two
“evacuees” named Joshua and Caleb.
New Orleans is the original home of Voodoo economics.
Deep in the murky shadows of the French Quarter was an industry of darkness.
Only a spiritual idiot plays around with darkness, and this is the
conundrum. American cannot decide what is light and what is dark. Isaiah
said, “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil” (5:20).
America cannot decide if abortion is good or bad. America cannot decide if
homosexuality is healthy or horrendous. America cannot decide if we were
made by God or rose up out of some primeval bayou. North Carolina has just
become the 41st state to establish a lottery. Please don't “wish
us luck.” We need more than luck.
Let’s send help to those suffering in the Gulf States.
Let’s give money. Let’s rescue the perishing, let’s be generous, let's help
them rebuild, but let’s not forget that the foolish man builds on the sand.
Somehow we have gone from singing “Blessed Assurance” to “Blessed Insurance”
and have forgotten that Jesus said the “wind bloweth where it listeth.” His
advice to Nicodemus is still valid for every American today, “Ye must be
born again.” Little by little, America has gone from rock to sand, and I am
afraid that God is too wise to underwrite the policy of any Nation that
builds too low. -id
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