Why a Recession O God?

As you already know and possibly feel, the United States is going through a financial recession. President Obama says it's only going to get worse. 10's of thousands of people are losing their jobs,people are losing their houses, mortgages are becoming overwhelming, banks are drying up! It seems that there is little to no hope for immediate relief. Welcome to the rest of the world. Most of the world are always going through an economic recession at best. But why is God allowing us as a nation to go through this? Is this His judgment for our nation's sins and abandoning His ways? Why is God allowing this to happen.

In Hebrews 13:3 we read: Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them, and those who are mistreated, since you also are in the body.

Perhaps we need the recession in America so the scales of prosperity might be stripped from our eyes that we might see the impoverished reality of the rest of the world! That we might be able to truly live out this command in Scripture; to remember those who " are in prison'.
The people he is talking about are suffering and the people he is writing to are not much better off save that they are not in prison.
What is the writer of Hebrews trying to convey here? Well he goes on further to explain what he means by remembering. First of all we notice the writer says to remember them as though we were with them. Is this very typical of us?

When was the last time that you ever sat around remembering the Christians in Orissa India who are being driven from their homes, beaten and sometimes killed? Do we remember as if we were suffering with them?

We are a part of the same body, the body of Christ! When your foot is injured the rest of your body is going to be effected. When you lose your eyesight the rest of your senses are going to work harder.

O God grant to us the grace we need to be able to remember those who are in the prisons in North Korea and other nations, may we suffer with those believers in Orissa India.
Lord, please do not let us waste this recession. May this be a time marked by the American Church awaking to how blinded we have been in our prosperity and how much of your glory we are missing out on. O Lord, tear the scales from our eyes and take our wealth away.

Also listen to 2 Corinthians 1:1-11

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the church of God that is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia: 2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. 5 For as we share abundantly in Christ’s sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too. 6 If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; and if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which you experience when you patiently endure the same sufferings that we suffer. 7 Our hope for you is unshaken, for we know that as you share in our sufferings, you will also share in our comfort. 8 For we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, of the affliction we experienced in Asia. For we were so utterly burdened beyond our strength that we despaired of life itself. 9 Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead. 10 He delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us. On him we have set our hope that he will deliver us again. 11 You also must help us by prayer, so that many will give thanks on our behalf for the blessing granted us through the prayers of many.

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