Earthly Solutions to God-sized Problems

I feel frustrated with all my news sources. They destroy our confidence in our way of government and in those who govern. They are doing it for profit -even the best of them. You don't have to go out of the temple to find the mental money changers and everyone is being told its the other guy's fault. “Buy my goods. I have the truth and can fix this.” Then when it's not fixed, “We didn't have enough funding.” But that's not God.

Young minds, by virtue of time of association alone, cannot see that this is not the way our government was set up or the way God works. There is a deeper, more sinister plot to rob our country of its reason and destroy our lives as we have known them. If you look at what is being attacked, you can follow it back and see where the attack is coming from.

I am tired, tired of the spin. The Christian community is as faithless in this as the far left! That's what hurts my heart and spirit. In the book of Malachi, the people had a comeback for every message God brought them. It struck me that they also had the 'spin doctors'. Many of them were secularists; many were deep-seated conservatives, but no one was responding to God and his message or his promises. They had their own tree of knowledge!

People come to me with the story and the hype and I just want to scream “STOP!” Can the prophets of plenty or the prophets of doom make anything happen? They cannot. They cry out “If you will fund us we can do this” but they really can't. I'm not against benevolence and I understand that the worker is worthy of his hire. There are things that we should support but money -coming or going- isn't what we should be looking to for personal salvation.

There came a point when a leader of the newly established nation of Israel said “Give me your valuables and we'll create a god you can follow.” That was a disaster but they were a young nation, not established in a God relationship. They had only recently become free men and women after being conditioned to slavery for centuries.

Later and later, again and again, the people of Israel gave out of their hearts huge amounts to serve the true God. In fact, Moses had to tell them “Enough!” There is a time to give and when you know your God, you will understand the giving. You will also understand that God is able to take a heart truly open and in love with him and do 'amazing'. When he is leading, there is supply, there is funding, there is progress even amid persecution and financial downturn.

The problem is that “good” people on the “good” side with “good” agendas are not always in that open-heart love relationship with Father God. They trust flesh much more than Spirit. Their plans are carnal even though they are “good”. They raise support through fear and anger. That should be the first red flag.

Back to Aaron: the people didn't know where their leader Moses had gone. They began to panic. They needed a focus, a direction, something to believe in and follow. It needed done now. Aaron had only recently begun to have a relationship with the God of his brother. He wasn't established or secure in it yet. He didn't really know how all that worked yet.

There are parts of that story that are only beginning to gel in my mind. Aaron was acquainted with idolatry. In Egypt it was the way of life, a way of focus. I've considered the time it takes to make a huge statue from metal such as silver and gold and I realize Moses had not disappeared into the mountain for a really long time when the fear started.

Fear isn't a rational thing even though it seems like it. These people had been through a lot, just as we have been through a lot in our world. They were beginning to experience what God could do, but it wasn't personal yet. For many of us, God is a great idea, but following Him is not a personal thing. So we look for a leader. We look for an earthly solution to God sized problems.

We have many Aarons who will find a way to focus us and give us something to believe in and follow, but it's not truth; it has no 'amazing' only hype. And besides, the spin doctors are really good at pulling the issues out so we can see them and fear them well.

DISCLAIMER: I am not dissing Aaron. He became a valuable servant of God. Go read the story (it's in Exodus)!