Debt

"At the end of every seven years you must cancel debts." (Deuteronomy 15:1)

What a great idea! If you are in debt, like me, just stop to think about that for a moment. What would happen if that were a law in your country? Every seven years, the credit card companies would just erase their records. Wouldn't that be cool? Of course, if you own a credit card company, you're thinking, "No, that would really be very uncool!"

I tend to think that this kind of rule might have been a lot easier to employ in the more simple economy of Bible times. But then again, the Israelites who were owed the money might have had the same reaction as above. It's interesting, however, to ponder the lesson involved here. God was obviously teaching his people something about the positives of grace and the negatives of extortion. It seems to me that those credit card companies have an awful lot of policies in place which are just plain designed to cheat, or at least fool, you into emptying your wallet into their bank account.

Anyway, the original purpose of this post was not to criticize credit card companies. My wife and I have been struggling with debt and were starting to "go under" after completing our adoption this past May. This has, among other things, threatened to hinder my plans of going back to school for my Masters. Someone has stepped in with one of the best kinds of manna, as I call it: money! They have given us a loan, to be paid back over 30 months. The percentage rate? A big fat, whopping ZERO.

I'm not saying who they are because I don't want to embarass them. But I will name the name of the God who makes this sort of thing possible. His name is, uhh...God. You know who I mean.

Comments

[anj]

Oh yeah that uhh God. Yeah on your manna from heaven, uh from those who must not be named. No, that's probably not right either. Anyway, YEAH !