For those of you who are students of numerology and eschatology, you may find it interesting (and somewhat depressing?) that the single biggest 1-day drop in the history happened today - Dow Jones stock dropped 777 points.
Now, I'm not a big "mystic-numbers guy", but ya gotta sit up and take notice, occasionally. Trust me, if the drop had been 666 points, the freak-show-on-parade would have marched down Wall Street AND Main Street. But what to make out of the "number of perfection", held in esteem by followers of the Hebrew and Christian GOD?
Hmm, set aside the shear volume of loss by investors and set aside the political blow-back on those who voted FOR the bail-out or AGAINST it- and just take a second to ask the question, "What is God doing?"
The question that might be better to ask, first, may be: What is God NOT doing? My guess is that He's NOT spanking America for greed and avarice, though we may deserve such a treatment in some people's minds.
He's also NOT forcing people to divest their wealth out of fear...'cause they are doing that themselves, highlighting His gift of "choice" in their lives.
Are we on the same page?
So, what is God doing? It seems to me that He's allowing people who have too great a concern for their inve$tment$ on Earth (conservatives and liberals in OR out of politics) to face the insecurity of the loss of their own wealth - by watching it slip away right in front of them. Many a man and woman will confront their own mortality tonight, knowing that they lost almost everything in one day. And when all a person has is God, that is often the time that all a person really needs is God.
Pain and suffering are our lot as a nation today and tonight...but joy comes in the morning.
May souls be saved even if fortunes are lost.
This may, in fact, be the most perfect day in the history of modern America...the day the financial markets bent their collective knee to the God who allows them AND the people who invest in them - to even exist. He's asking the perfect question: What are YOU doing with my son, Jesus Christ?
But that's just me.....
What do you think?
Den
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