Unemployment - What would Jesus do?

Unemployment is a worldwide problem, it is challenging all societies from rich to poor. It is as if mankind needs to find a new way of giving people the means to live. As we hear the speeches of politicians we here the ringing of voices spoken in a vacuum, they have nothing to say. As both China and the USA develop through the phases of their industrial revolutions they are finding unemployment a growing problem, everyone needs a solution.

It seems simple to say we have no alternative to being dependant on the God who made us and who saves us. I have told you in a earlier post that the name of Jesus means God saves. The God who saves is ready to help in time of trouble as it says in Psalms 46. The Old Testament has a number of names for God which are really descriptions thus in Psalm 46 we have Eloheem which is translated as God and means supreme and Jehovah which is translated as the Lord and means eternal. So from the Hebrew language God is described as the Supreme Eternal Being who can tackle all of your problems. That God is determined to be exalted in the earth and we are waiting for this to happen.

When we pray "Your kingdom come your will be done on earth as it is in heaven" we can have in mind both this grand vision as well as our personal need. God is interested in us as he is in everyone, he says to call him Father. We need a revelation of a new way of giving people the food and water they need. In England and many other places we need lots of gentle rain to break our drought. We do not need that heavy torrential downpour that brings floods and runs straight off the land. We need God to be gentle with us and kind towards us and to reveal his ways to us. We in our turn need to accept that the Jesus we learnt about in our youth is the only Saviour we are going to get and that it is His teaching that we are to put into practise.