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The adrenaline is settling for many, and yet anxiety runs high because looking ahead so much is uncertain. Our own futures are, in part due to the economic crisis, a mystery to us. There are many other factors, including new leadership, but Americans are by nature ones to rally around their leaders until such time as they feel they no longer deserve our support. So the leadership issue isn’t driving our anxiety. The economic crisis and how it will develop and resolve is the root of an enormous amount of anxiety for most of us.
One of the major challenges for those trying to tamp that anxiety is doubt that those responsible--and there are many in all quarters--will be held accountable. We’ve been lax on responsibility and accountability for a while now, but this crisis has brought those things into sharp focus, and now we expect it. Many demand it.
Believers are far less anxious, which is to say, they’re not out on the ledge. Why is that?
The answer can be summed up in one word: Faith.
We know that regardless of accountability by man, every individual is held accountable for his or her actions and deeds by the ultimate authority. The scales will be balanced. We might not know the point and time. We might not see it. We might not feel the weight of the shift. But we know that accountability will be had because the Bible tells us it will, and we believe it.
We know that in that balance . . . READ MORE
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