WHAT CAN WE DO? Part 4
Colossians 2:2-5 “My goal is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding, in order that they may know the mystery of God, namely, Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. I tell you this so that no one may deceive you by fine-sounding arguments. For though I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit and delight to see how disciplined you are and how firm your faith in Christ is.”
In the previous weeklies we saw how God’s revelation was superseded by man’s reasoning when it came to knowledge and understanding of nature and the nature of God. We saw where in the 21st century man’s reasoning has taken us where we are calling good evil and evil good.
Where do we find wisdom and knowledge? Paul tells us that “in Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.” Jesus is the answer. It is with this thought in mind that I found the following very interesting.
Mr. Bilal Hafeez serves as the Managing Director and Analyst at Deutsche Bank AG – Research Division and has been its Global Head of Foreign Exchange Strategy since September 2004. He joined Deutsche Bank AG – Research Division in 2002 as a Senior Foreign Exchange Strategist. Mr. Hafeez is responsible for formulating the bank’s view on currencies. He manages and contributes to the firm’s flagship publications: FX Strategy Weekly, FX Blueprint, and Exchange Rate Perspectives.
Bilal Hafeez said in a speech: “Who else has entered the terrible teens? The Euro-Area! It was born in 1999 and so is currently fourteen years old. It has all the hallmarks of teenage angst. It is ridden with internal conflicts, it is groping around for structure, and it is suspicious of authority.” “So who can be a positive role model for the Euro-Area?” he asks. “Well, it cannot be the ‘fathers ‘—Germany or France. It has to be an external figure that all Europeans respect and whose motives and character are beyond dispute. That rules out anyone living, as even the most competent person will make missteps or have something from their past dredged up to undermine them. That leaves us with historical figures whose lives have been laid bare by history. I can only think of one figure that is respected by most Europeans and has never sinned,” he concludes. “Jesus!” Incredibly, Hafeez goes onto suggest that if everyone lived by the injunction to not be the “first to cast stones unless they were without sin” then the “constant accusations would stop.”
One of the things that I see coming out of our city, state and federal governments is that our so-called leaders seem to not know what to do. Poll after poll shows that the public does not trust them in what they say (result of our post-modern worldview) and we find that they are making decisions that will have dastardly consequences later on for future generations.
What is the answer? I think it is what Hafeez said and what we read in the following verses: “Kings of the earth and all nations, you princes and all rulers on earth, young men and women, old men and children. Let them praise the name of the Lord, for his name alone is exalted; his splendor is above the earth and the heavens.” (Psalms 148:11-13)
What is interesting to me that comes out in Hafeez’s article is that man and his reasoning does not have an answer to some of the most complex problems we have today in the area of finance and international relations. Jesus is the answer; Jesus is the solution. My prayer is that God will raise up godly men/women of influence next to men/women of power who can influence those in power in the way they should go and in the way they make decisions.
We need to insert Biblical values back into our society.