Who's Macro?

Who’s Macro?

"Now, O LORD my God, you have made your servant king in place of my father David.

But I am only a little child and do not know how to carry out my duties. ⁸

Your servant is here among the people you have chosen,

a great people, too numerous to count or number. ⁹

So give your servant a discerning heart to govern your people and to distinguish between right and wrong.

 For who can govern these great people of yours?"

(1 Kings 3vs 7-10) 

            Please do not take this as a political piece but it seems like my life is out of control. Not the daily issues but in computer terms, it seems my Macro needs to be reset. Where is the land of milk and honey, the golden years or to live happily ever after? We are trained to look for that in all those books our mom read to us when we were growing up. 

            Well, another old-time expression is “life begins at 40”. It may not seem like that as you approach that milestone but at over eighty looking back seems that way. It is all a matter of perspective. Believe it or not, age 50 through 70 are most often the best years of our lives; enjoy them. 

Macro Issues

“the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

³gentleness and self-control. Against such things, there is no law

….Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.

 Let us not become conceited, provoking, and envying each other.

(Galatians 5 vs. 22 & 24) 

            My macro issues are with the new world economy and what is happening in the world. It is like “we the people” do not get our say in the issues. We all want to have income, end war, reduce taxes, and live happily ever after. That is the challenge. 

            The solution is that we need to focus on the correct Macro; the spirit of our Christian Faith as opposed to the Government macro. Over the years, politics around the world changed things. The new world economy seems more autocratic with less supply and demand. The new normal created by a pandemic even altered lifestyles. They have not impacted the words of the Lord- The real Macro was written by Paul. 

Thought for Today: We need to focus on our daily lives for survival, there is no truer fact. With that said, today let’s do what we need to do to survive but keep Paul’s letters and the word of our Lord in our daily lives. It will fit in if we let it. 

Prayer for Today: Dear Lord, today we pray for our world and country. We pray that we can find a way back to Jesus's word and Paul’s macro.

Amen