Mere Comments from Touchstone: 

Why is it that radical legislation is preceded with pleas and warnings that we have to act before it’s too late? For example, our American Congress’s profligate spending earlier this year to “save” our economy in the nick of time. (We’re still waiting for a sign of salvation.) The power-brokers write bills hundreds even more than a thousand pages thick, with fine print and all sorts of additions and caveats and regulatory sleights of hand, bills that legislators do not even read let alone understand before they vote on them. But without delay!—This must be done and there is no time to debate or read the bills—you must “trust us” with this mission or we die!

Well, there are times when there is no time to lose, as when firemen show up in a haze of smoke to show you the way out of a burning building “Now”. You have to trust them to get you down or lead you through the house to safety. But we have some level of confidence in them because they, after all, have a track record we know about. (Congress has a track record, too.)

God the Savior doesn’t operate in haste. He’s been very patient with the human race. God took a long time preparing a people, instilling in them a sense of what the real dangers are, slowly teaching and revealing a pattern of death and life, sin and holiness, then writ large at the right time in the Person of His Son. The legislation of sin overturned in the Cross is not hard for average Joe’s to understand—one of them signed on while Jesus was still on the Cross. He gives us time, sometimes a full lifetime of many years to figure it all out and vote, finally, Yea, on the Fix of the Cross and the Resurrection. To be sure, Today is the Day of Salvation, and it is the acceptable hour. Best to act now. But tomorrow and tomorrow, as long as you are around, the invitation stands. It has no expiration date earlier than your own.

As to the fear of global warming, we should accept it in a way, but not Al Gore’s global warming but The Global Warming: “I came to cast fire upon the earth; and would that it were already kindled!” What does that mean? Well, I trust Him on that one, and that’s the one to worry about, and Kyoto won’t be able to touch it.