Obama’s Stimulus Package (Back in the G.A.M.E.)

Unless you’ve been extremely busy or uninformed, this past Tuesday the United States Senate passed President Barak Obama’s $838 billion dollar economic stimulus package. The purpose of this economic plan is to stimulate our economy so that our country can avert heading into a depression similar to the catastrophe we experienced back in the 1930’s.

Our leaders are already past admitting that we’re in an economic recession. The U.S. has been experiencing losses of approximately 500,000 jobs per month. And those statistics are real people, some even within our own congregation. No matter if consider yourself a Democrat, Republican, or Independent, nobody wants to experience another Great Depression.

In order to avoid repeating history, President Obama has been travelling throughout our country. He’s trying to educate the American people so that we can understand why we need such a massive influx of borrowed cash in order to stimulate our economy.

We keep hearing the word “stimulus”, but what does it mean? The verb “stimulate” means “to goad (provoke to action), activate, motivate, or energize”. The thought here is that something from the outside has to be added to our economy in order to provoke it into producing more. The goal here is to activate it, motivate (move) it, and energize it, which means to get it working instead of receding. Stimulation is the means by which our country is trying to avoid depression.

The same holds true with God’s Spiritual Economy (economy meaning the management of the resources of a community, country, etc., esp. with a view to its productivity). God’s community or country is called The Kingdom. God has added someone to our lives whose job is to
– Goad us (1 Samuel 1:6-18),
– Activate us (1 Samuel 10:6-9),
– Motivate us (Acts 4:29-31),
– Energize us for the purpose of averting “depression” so that we can expand His Kingdom (Matthew 6:33).

That person is the Holy Spirit (Romans 14:17). His joy stimulates us, getting us back in the game of Kingdom life by helping us to avoid depression (Nehemiah 8:10; Galatians 5:22).