Only God

Reading the local newspaper this morning seems to indicate that we're all broke. The city is broke. The country is broke. I know I'm in a perpetual state of broke. Part of the reason is we are so much in need of things that cost and the things that cost are continually going up because the ones who do the charging are, you guessed it, broke.

God says this to Isaiah:
2: 10Head for the hills, hide in the caves from the terror of God, from his dazzling presence. People with a big head are headed for a fall, pretentious egos brought down a peg. It's God alone at front-and-center on the day we're talking about, the day that God-of-the-Angel-Armies matched against all big-talking rivals, against all swaggering big names; against all giant sequoias hugely towering, and against the expansive chestnut; against Kilimanjaro and Annapurna, against the ranges of Alps and Andes; against every soaring skyscraper, against all proud obelisks and statues; against ocean-going luxury liners, against elegant three-masted  shooners. The swelled big heads will be punctured bladders, the pretentious egos brought down to earth, leaving God alone at front-and-center on the Day we're talking about. And all those sticks and stones
dressed up to look like gods will be gone for good."

The key line for me is "people with a big head are headed for a fall, pretentious egos brought down a peg." Everyone seems to think they have an idea about what to do with the economy, with health care, with this and that, and yet no one fixes anything. That's because all this starts with the person and we've become persons who are headed for a fall. Government, even governments led by the Almighty, can't fix anything. We can, but we have to sacrifice and we all know that's something out there that is difficult to do.

The second chapter of Isaiah concludes, "quit scrapping and fawning over mere humans, so full of themselves, so full of hot air! Can't you see there's nothing to them?"

Only God, my friends. Only God.