Twenty-nineth of Year A - The God of history
October 2008
The more we understand about the universe the more we see how everything has its place and acts and reacts according to fixed laws of physics.
For scientists of all varieties, who spend their lives discovering these laws, this is a source of great wonder and admiration.
For those of us who have faith in the One True God, this is no surprise as we know that everything is governed by the laws of the Creator.
For human beings these laws are the precepts of the One True God.
These precepts are justice, generosity, sharing, diligence, respect and forgiveness in our dealings with each other.
One could say that the Bible, for the most part, shows us from history and in parable, that happens when human beings live by these precepts or on the other hand ignore them.
Living by the precepts of the One True God brings peace, prosperity and mutual understanding to the world.
Ignoring them brings chaos, uncertainty, hostility, recrimination, greed, poverty, hunger and eventually war.
Any of the authors of the Bible would have no difficulties in ascribing the present financial and economic chaos as being the direct result of abandoning the precepts of the One True God.
It is pretty obvious to all of us that the root of the present financial problem is that the precepts of the One True God have been left out of the market place. They have been forgotten or laughed out of court.
Instead, self-interest, greed, injustice and avarice have been adopted as guiding principles. These are the precepts of Satan.
Not many of us can truthfully say that we are totally blameless for the current situation.
What is needed is a change of heart that will bring the precepts of the One True God back into the marketplace. What we will probably get is a raft of rules and regulations which will be easily circumvented or largely ignored.
There may be very little that I, as an individual, can do about this but I can always insure that my own dealings are just and respectful of the rights of others.