By GARY VARVEL
President Biden proudly declares, “Bidenomics is working.” But according to an AP-NORC poll 66% describe the national economy as poor. The truth is, Biden and the Democrats’ wasteful $1.9 trillion stimulus bill fueled inflation which reduced the value of retirees’ savings and has eaten workers’ wages every month since its passing. I doubt that Bidenomics will propel Ol’ Joe to a second term.
Political blindness? There are none so blind as those who won’t see. We’re supposed to believe that, in the most secure facility in the world with cameras everywhere and facial recognition technology, that the Secret Service can’t find the person who left a bag of cocaine in locker number 50 and took the key? Sure. That’s understandable. I’m sure this happens all the time. No big deal.
Glenn Beck explains from personal experience how secure the White House is and argues that there are only two options: 1. The Secret Service and FBI either didn’t do their jobs or 2. the culprit is someone who doesn’t have to be searched, like a member of the First Family. So, are these agencies incompetent or LYING to you?
If they are incompetent, then they are unqualified to be protecting the President. If they are lying, then should be in jail.
Leviticus 19:15 says, “You shall do no injustice in court. You shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.
It’s obvious that America has become a nation of men and not of laws. Some families in power are protected. The Bible says in James 2:9, “But if you show partiality (favoritism), you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.”
As long as Congressional hearings produce nothing but noise, none of this corruption will ever change.
THE LOVE OF MONEY
The verse for today: “Then Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, “One thing you lack: Go your way, sell whatever you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, take up the cross, and follow Me.” – Mark 10:21.
A rich young ruler asked Jesus what he should do to get to heaven. Jesus told him to keep the law. Now, no one except for Jesus has ever kept the law. But this young man said that he had obeyed the law since his youth.
To prove to the man that he had, in fact, broken the First Commandment, “You shall have no other gods before me,” and the Tenth Commandment, “Do not covet,” (Exodus 20:3, 17) Jesus tells him to give his money to the poor and he would have treasure in heaven and then take up his cross and follow Him.
The man went away sad because he loved his money more than God. His money is what defined him. It’s what set him apart from everyone else. Notice that even though the verse says that Jesus “loved him,” Jesus let him walk away. He didn’t force the young man to believe. That is our responsibility.
This foolish man chose temporal riches which he can’t keep over eternal riches which he couldn’t lose. Jesus told his disciples that it is hard for a rich man to be saved.
But there is hope because “with God, all things are possible.” Death will come for all of us one day. And it will separate us from everything we value in this world. Pray for unbelievers to seek the true riches which are found only in Jesus Christ.
