Is Nothing Sacred?
News last week revealed that this year TABs in Victoria and NSW will be allowed to operate on Good Friday. Even though there are no local race meetings on that day, punters will be able to bet on international race meetings, football games and other international sports.
At the same time, more than 80 stores including such leading names as Myer, David Jones and Kmart, have applied to the NSW Department of Commerce, for permission to trade on Easter Sunday this year.
Both these moves are symptoms of systemic greed - the very same greed that has brought the world to its knees in the “global economic crisis”, which is likely to soon become the “global recession” and possibly even the “global depression.”
In any shape, greed is a form of idolatry. Greed puts material things at the top of life’s priorities - the place that should be occupied by God alone. When that greed tries to take over the most sacred days of the year, it is sacrilege bordering on blasphemy.
By far the greatest percentage of the Australian community is at least nominally Christian. The Christian faith shaped this country, as it has most of the western world. Not only are these moves blatant greed, they are also an attempt (yet again!) to force the atheistic agenda of the few upon the majority. It indicates a total lack of respect, both for the Lord Jesus Christ and for all those who follow Him.
This country has been subject to several serious warnings from the Lord - the economic crisis, the Victorian fires, the Queensland floods, even a couple of minor earthquakes. These things are not God’s judgments: they have been caused, either directly or indirectly, by man’s sin and selfishness. They have, however, been allowed by God as warnings: when you play with fire you will get burned; when you put your trust in false gods - including the gods of greed and materialism - they will not save you from disaster, and may even bring disaster upon you.
Yet in spite of the warnings, this nation continues to embrace the false gods. Instead of turning away from greed (just one of the false gods this nation pursues) it allows that greed to take over the most sacred days of the year.
Australia, wake up! Listen to the warnings! Repent and turn back to the true God! If this nation does not turn back to Him, the time will come when we do face His judgment. If that happens, everything we have experienced so far will seem like a picnic in the park.
This blog is © copyright Lynn Fowler.
There is one God, and one mediator between God and people, the man Christ Jesus (1 Timothy 2:51 Timothy 2:5
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5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,)in Whom all the fullness of the Godhead dwells in bodily form (Colossians 2:9Colossians 2:9
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9 For in him all the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily,)and Whom God the Father has exalted to the highest place, giving Him the Name which is above every name, that at the Name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. (Philippians 2:9-11Philippians 2:9-11
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9 Therefore God also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name;
10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, those on earth, and those under the earth,
11 and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.)
