Roast Crunch

October 1, 2008

ROAST CRUNCH

“Price of Sunday lunch soars 25% – Families are shunning their meat and veg as costs hit an all time high” – The Sun

“Three couples save £30,000 with a crunch-busting triple wedding.” Three couples spend £20,000 on big joint wedding to, er, save money” – Daily Mirror

“Boaters shun the rat race – Hard-pressed Britons are taking to the canal to beat the credit crunch… There are now more then 31,500 licensed boats, more than at the height of the Industrial Revolution” – Daily Express

What will be the  real  fallout from the housing, mortgage  and credit meltdown of 2007/2008.The crunch probably is not at an end nor has the fallout fully settlted.

A couple of years ago in our area we had a bad summer’s day where there had been a lot of rain and it was quite dark by nine in the evening.Around that time there was a power cut that affected every home and each street light in the area in which we lived .

The combined effevct of the power cut and the rain created quite an eerie and unsettling atmosphere and groups of local residents gathered in the street outside .Huddling together in nervous and sometime angry groups.

I was reminded of the occasion as the ongoing stories of credit crunch and instability in the financial markets raises the spectre of unemployment, foreclosures loss of savings and investments and many other fearful scenarios.

I have in recent times been reminded of the passage in Exodus 10:23 when a different kind of darkness covered the land of Egypt, no one could see anyone else or leave his place for three days.

Yet all the Israelites had light in the places where they lived.To what extent through God’s alternative economic system has he given us the opportunity in these days to demonstrate that whilst there is lots of economic  darkeness around there can still be light in the lives and homes of believers.

How can we be light to those around us in a dark economic climate?

William Prentice – Pastor.

Written by william · Filed Under Pastors Blog 

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