3, 574, 468, 725, 001 ….. 121,932 …………. 43, 724

Take a look at those 3 numbers and wonder about them for a minute.

You may want to visit www.usdebtclock.org to see how those numbers have changed since this article was written at 17:33 19th Oct 2010 (South African time). Unless you are a mathematician, the first number is too large to even think about.

Most of us can wrap our minds around that last figure. The national USA debt amounts to $43,724 for every man, woman, boy, and girl that lives in the USA. And since tax payers are the ones who actually foot that bill, the second figure is even more telling. The load for each tax payer at this moment is approaching $122,000.00.  America is now up to it’s neck in DEBT.

Mind you they are not the only ones, (South Africa debt $73.84 )billion UK debt (£927.4  billion) (India debt $273.1 billion) In fact it seems as though every nation  on the planet has a bad PUBLIC DEBT to GDP RATIO!!!!!!

Can you see the pattern with America leading the way?

America is going under for the third time.

One would think the church would be at the forefront of leading its members to understand both the spiritual and national implications for a generation that is borrowing against the very hopes of generations to come. There was a time when Christians and church leaders saw the need to live prudently in the present and trust God for the future.

Consider the amazing life of George Mueller and the work he did throughout England in the 1800s.  In an era when orphans and the needy were seldom cared for, George Mueller of Bristol, England trusted God to be his financial advisor so he could help the helpless. Muller believed God’s Word instructed him never to solicit gifts and to never accept any government money for his orphanages. Mueller took his own rules seriously. He refused a salary from his church and abolished the practice of purchasing pews. Through prayer and faith, he trusted God to manage whatever monies came in to further His kingdom.

By the time of his death, Mueller’s society had provided homes and education for 23,000 orphans, given away tens of thousands of Bibles, and had supported 150 missionaries, including Hudson Taylor. Near his death Mueller said, “It is not enough to obtain means for the work of God, but that these means should be obtained in God’s way. To ask unbelievers for means is not God’s way; to pressure believers to give is not God’s way; but the duty and the privilege of being allowed to contribute to the work of God should be pointed out, and this should be followed up with earnest prayer, believing prayer, and will result in the desired end.”

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