The real debt crisis isn’t monetary, it’s morality.

Watching the constant arguing and posturing of our elected officials got me thinking…the problem isn’t that our country owes money and has a deficit of finance, it’s that we have a defecit of morality. Watching a world that says showing obvious nudity, sexual immorality, perversion, and violence just depresses me. It’s hard to be a Social Studies teacher who doesn’t want to watch the evening news.

We have forgotten that the most important debt we owe is to Jesus. We did nothing to deserve forgiveness. We did nothing to warrant the sacrifice poured out for us. Many people get mad at me for saying this, but the reason bad things happen to good people is because at heart, there are no good people. We are all sinners. “There are none righteous, no not one.” There are nice people with amazing acts of service and awesome intentions. But, in our heart of hearts, no one is “good.” 

We base our goodness on a standard of this world, and looking around, that standard gets lower and lower. We make drug-addicted, foul-mouthed, obnoxious people celebrities because they have an image. At the same time, we remove the words and images of Christ from our public buildings, schools, and even our homes.

God bases His goodness on the standard of His Son. Anything good we possess, anything good we have done, anything good we are is a result of the love of our Father and His Son, Jesus.

That’s the real debt crisis…we owe Christ everything, and too often, we give Him nothing.

~ by denniscraig on July 29, 2011.