Comfort in the Word

2 Tim 4:3-5

"For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires, and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths. But you, be sober in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry."

As one who has taken his first steps into an adult life of vocational ministry this semester, these words are extremely comforting to me. So often, discouragement, disappointment and disillusionment crowd out the Truth that the Lord has so graciously put in His Word for us in the difficult times.

The truth that I keep running back to is this: we are called to be obedient. The results are in the Lord's hands. Worrying about the results is a moot point...all we are responsible for is the act of obedience and submission.

Praise the Lord for His endless patience and kindness to me. I'm pretty good at screwing things up, but He keeps teaching and guiding me down this path. Praise Him!!

Enough of this "Bush is responsible for the economy's woes" nonsense...

During Bush's eight years in office, the national debt rose from $5,727,776,738,304.64 to $10,626,877,048,913.08. This is a difference of 4.899 Trillion Dollars (Rounded to the nearest billion dollars). If you take the total spent and divide it by 8, you get an average of 612.388 Billion dollars per year of Bush's term. Conversely,under Obama the national debt has raised from $10,626,877,048,913.08 to 11,952,611,405,769.02 as of today. This is a difference of 1.326 Trillion dollars (Rounded to the nearest billion dollars) spent in 10 months.

Assuming the debt grows at the same rate, by the end of the year it will be 1.591 Trillion which is 2.6 times bush's average per year.

Data from http://www.treasurydirect.gov/NP/BPDLogin?application=np

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All that to say...Obama is spending money that he doesn't have....a whole lot faster than Bush ever did. AND, Bush was fighting 2 wars the whole time.

People, I certainly appreciate your rights to have and express your opinions. However, if you want to not sound like an uninformed, dogmatic, liberal sheep...please get your facts straight.