As I have been listening to the talk today, about why some people have entitlements and other do not, I was reminded of something I learned a long time ago.
When I got out of high school, I worked for a cabinet shop in Sacramento. One of my first jobs was to go to the housing authority and help with the remodeling of apartments. My job was to remove existing cabinets from the suite. When I walked into the room, I could not believe people lived like this and thought how great it was for our government to help change living conditions for these people.
When I came back to the suites to install the new cabinets, it was so different, everything was clean and new, and I thought now this is the way people should be treated. Then about 2 months later I came back to do some touch up and complete punch-list items. What I saw shocked me. These new apartments were beginning to look like they did before they were remodeled.
What I concluded is that you can clean up the environment but until you clean up the heart - nothing will change no matter how much money you throw at cleaning up the environment. Today our government thinks that if you throw enough money at it, that will make everything right. WRONG!
America's elected officials and even our court systems continue to think that cleaning up the cities and putting more officers on the streets (which we need!) will solve the problem of what's happening to many American cities and states. But what we need to hear and work on - is seeing hearts changing by freely giving out true wealth: the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
The truth is in changing the hearts of people and only then you can change the environment they live in.
