“…The borrower is slave to the Lender.” Proverbs 22:7b
Did you know that the United States is in over $10,500,000,000,000 in debt and counting (yes that is TRILLION)? We are continually adding over $500,000,000,000 Billion each year. Do we get this?
I want to leave all parties out of this equation. I don’t want this to turn into a; this president did this, and this president did that no matter republican, democrat or libertarian. The fact is; we are in a huge heap of trouble right now. Do we understand that countries actually own a percentage of the USA because of our debt?
What Americans don’t get is the significance that debt impedes on the borrower. I want to focus on a mortgage for a second because people have no clue the spiritual significance of this debt. After WWII FDR created a five year mortgage for the average person since businesses were the only ones that could afford this type of product. When creating the word, FDR wanted people to understand what they were getting themselves into. “Mort” = death “Gage” = pledge. The actual word mortgage means pledge of death. Did you know that amortization means a longer pledge of death?
This gets under my skin because our society has deemed a mortgage good debt these days. Oh I can get tax benefits on this. Oh really, do you really want to pay a $1.00 to get a $0.30 cent benefit? Not to smart is it. Oh and right next to the interest write off on your taxes is charitable gifts, receiving the same exact write off as interest on your home. That should get you thinking!
We have been lied to and formed to believe that if we can afford the payment then we can afford the product. That is not true. Did you know that the American dream was to own your own home? Did you know that it has switched to owning a mortgage or pledge of death? Did you know that right now 99 year loans are being issued in Japan where the babies and children are tied to their parent’s generational debt?
I get fired up on this topic because I see a generation that is being put in chains. The scripture above says that the borrower is slave to the lender. The lender earns interest off the loans that they write, which means that when you have a loan you actually work for that company. Get it, they have authority over you and you can’t be who you really are unless you are out of that bondage.
I know there are dreams in the hearts of this generation to change our economy and to change nations. I honestly believe that if this generation cannot get out of the chains of debt, we will not be able to hear the call from God on our lives. Even if we hear the call, if we are locked into debt we are slave to the lender. We can’t just pick up and move because the bills are due next month.
Einstein said, “Insanity means doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result.” He also said, “We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking when we created them.”
ITS TIME FOR AMERICANS TO CHANGE SO THE GOVERNMENT CAN GET A CLUE. STOP BLAMING AND START CHANGING!!! FOR THOSE THAT ARE OUT OF DEBT, PRAISE GOD FOR YOUR EXAMPLE, PLEASE SHARE THAT WITH THE GENERATIONS!
