President Obama made a moving and passionate speech yesterday about the state of the economy in America and the world. He gave a sober assessment of the recent past when ‘short term gains were prized over long-term prosperity’. People were so concerned about the next pay check and the next thing to buy that they did not think about the future. This is very true of our culture. It’s even true of us as Christians. We are not very good at thinking about the future. We feel like we don’t have much money, yet we are always thinking about what to get next. We are so surrounded by consumerism that we can’t even see it. Obama says that we need to start thinking about our long term prosperity. Which made me think: how often do we think about our long term ‘prosperity’? How often is it true that we think of the next thing on the ‘to do’ list, the next pay check, the next assignment... We need to think long term too, but not primarily about money and investments but our future prosperity of eternity in heaven. If Obama is so passionate about this economy, how much more should we be about eternity?
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