Yahweh and two angels appeared to Abraham near Hebron (Genesis 18: 1), a city in present-day Israel. Unfortunately Hebron is in the West Bank so you take your life in your hands if you travel there without a tour group. Abraham invited Yahweh to stay and share a meal with him, and Yahweh agreed. While they were eating, (Genesis 18: 8) Yahweh told Abraham that He would return in a year, and by that time Sarah would have a child.

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Yahweh Tells Abraham about Isaac’s Birth

Yahweh and two angels appeared to Abraham near Hebron (Genesis 18: 1), a city in present-day Israel.  Unfortunately Hebron is in the West Bank so you take your life in your hands if you travel there without a tour group.  Abraham invited Yahweh to stay and share a meal with him, and Yahweh agreed.  According to Genesis 18: 8, while they were eating, Yahweh told Abraham that He would return in a year, and by that time Sarah would have a child.

Sarah was inside the tent listening, and she overheard the conversation.  When she heard Yahweh say she would have a child, she laughed to herself saying, “After I have become old, shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?” (Genesis 18: 12)

Yahweh knew Sarah’s thoughts, and He said, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Shall I indeed bear a child, when I am so old?’  Is anything too difficult for Yahweh?  At the appointed time I will return to you, at this time next year, and Sarah shall have a son.” (Genesis 18: 13-14)

Once again, Yahweh confirmed that He would fulfill His promises through Isaac—a child who had not been born yet.  He concluded His conversation with Abraham by asking a question that every one of us should remember because the question is actually a statement.  “Is anything too difficult for Yahweh?”  The answer is NO!

Fact is Stranger than Fiction

Today’s reported job losses were moderate, but unemployment rose to 9.7%—click here to read the article.  Whenever unemployment increases, it’s bad news, especially for people who are out of work, but the pain we’re experiencing now is pain we postponed while the economy was strong.  That’s right.  When the economy was going gangbusters, businesses avoided making unpleasant decisions because they could do it with minimal negative consequences.  Now it’s time to pay the fiddler.

This isn’t complicated.  People get fat and lazy if they eat too much and exercise too little, and so do businesses if they delay making difficult choices during good times.  For people, getting back into shape means foregoing pleasure (eating less) and experiencing some pain (exercising more).  For businesses, getting into shape requires focusing on the right activities and eliminating unnecessary costs.  That means job losses in the short-term, but it translates into long-term, sustainable growth.  No pain, no gain is not just a cliché.

Jobs are being cut as businesses rightsize so they can compete in the future.  If they don’t trim excess fat now, they won’t survive.  Consider this.  One important reason Ford is doing better today than GM is because Ford had to make some hard choices during the early-1980s recession to avoid bankruptcy.  GM was able to weather that storm without making life or death decisions, but difficult decisions can’t be avoided indefinitely.

When GM’s much anticipated Day of Judgment arrived, the UAW and “leaders” at GM begged for a government bailout.  They got it, but we would be better off as a nation if GM had been allowed to fail.  Why?  It’s because the absence of GM would have had no bearing whatsoever on automobile demand, so the macroeconomic effect would have been zero, nada, zip.  The only beneficiaries of the GM bailout are the overpaid people working for GM and the cities and towns where GM set up their uncompetitive operations.  And who will pay for the GM bailout?  The answer: you and me and our children and grandchildren.

This is the simple truth.  Unemployment during economic downturns is a natural occurrence.  It’s the price businesses pay for delaying decisions they should have made during good times.  Making those decisions now helps to assure survival and prosperity in the future.  Unfortunately, our savings rate as a nation has been very low for a long time, and many people facing unemployment are not prepared for even a few weeks without a paycheck.

As counterintuitive as this may sound, the increase in unemployment reported today coupled with moderating job losses points to the beginning or economic recovery.  That’s a good thing, and it portends good things to come.  So don’t wring your hands and say “woe is me” because our economy is actually on the road to recovery.  Today’s unemployment data shows once again that fact is stranger than fiction.

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“On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have appointed watchmen; all day and all night they will never keep silent.  You who remind Yahweh, take no rest for yourselves; and give Him no rest until He establishes and makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.”

Isaiah 62: 6-7

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