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First, here are some key points on which I trust we can all agree:
Inflammation is deeply personal.
Acute and chronic, one heals, the other kills gradually.
Inflation is broadly societal.
Whether basic or hyper, everyone is hurt adversely.
These states couldn’t be more incomparable!
True! Yet I perceive there are some unique correlations.
So let’s take some time to enhance your imagination.
Inflammation signifies ‘bodily heat inflation’.
Inflation signifies ‘economic inflammation’.
With sin as their root word, sinflammation and sinflation,
Epitomize our global, post-pandemic condition.
Let’s explore the links…
Inflammation – Sinflammation Links
At the onset of any injury or disease,
Our immune system dispatches inflammatory cells,
To encase and warm the target area with ease.
Thus starts the complex healing process (on which I can’t dwell).
Lifestyles today cause chronic inflammation worries:
Immune responses to un-injured cells cannot be quelled!
Sin wounds our spirit, and impacts our God-connection.
The Lord’s first line of defense is conscience conviction. 1
When we repent, and then embrace lifestyle revisions,
Our spirit is healed, and we avoid His afflictions.
But, if our conscience is seared from righteous intentions,
Sinflammation kicks in, followed by reprobation! 2
When The Lord’s Grace to unrepentant folks expires,
Like chronic inflammation, His judgments are dispatched.
They target wounded spirits. Lives becomes quite dire.
Between folks’ lifestyles and His desires, there’s a mismatch!!
Devils add to the mix, more evil to inspire.
If these folks press on, by judgments they’re …severely whacked!!! 3
Those who repent are very likely to be included,
Among remnants who live to remember, regret, then retell,
Future generations how, by sins, they were deluded,
How, in repentance, they found Grace, and The Lord’s judgments were quelled.
But in us humans, there’s a trait that can’t be extruded:
To learning from others folks’ mistakes, we’ve mostly bid farewell!
Thus righteousness sinks…
Inflation – Sinflation Links
When capital and labor markets both refuse to respond,
To central banks’ inflation policy adjustments,
With growing inflation, higher interest rates must correspond,
With risks of recession and growing unemployment.
Worse case scenarios: depression or hyper-inflation.
Could inflation be the fruits of The Lord’s sin judgments?? 4
When to The Lord’s amazing Grace, sinful people are flagrant,
His judgments of famines, wars, pestilence, and beastly attacks,
Aim to change lifestyle choices among a surviving remnant.
Climate change, droughts, floods, wars, the pandemic, and ALL their impacts,
Fit well into His declared strategic response, congruent!
We’re the surviving remnant, yet gross sinfulness we unpack!!! 5
Concurrent with post-pandemic inflation,
There is now a …pandemic of sinflation!!!
It’s deepening The Lord’s administration,
Of His four, preferred judgment applications!!!
Ergo…
We’re like teens refusing to learn sage lessons,
Denying worse consequent devastations!
Crimes, from street-to-high-level white collar,
Judges, national and religious leaders, etc.,
Folks have put on their ‘sin catch-up’ armor,
And are, therefore, more unabashedly audacious, by far.
With no ability to self-censure,
Hyper-sinflation is the next stop for our world, so bizarre!
Thus, across all societies, generationally,
Sin becomes more hyper, and then chronic,
And it explodes as we advance technologically.
With repentance then much more anemic,
And Christians with much less ‘salty spirituality’,
The Lord’s judgments make our tailspin ..TRAGIC! 6
Personal sins will trigger repentance via conviction,
Or The Lord’s personal judgments and ruination,
With chronic, personal spiritual inflammation.
Across societies, they then spread like infections.
Unchecked, this cycle triggers societal sinflation.
What’s next when judgments don’t trigger lifestyle revisions?!
To this global conundrum, in which we’re captive,
What answers can we find to these issues so adverse??
To search for, and apply them, let’s be proactive.
Before you search, take time to ponder my pictures first.
Ask yourself, ‘To that, how can I be responsive,
And do my part to help avoid The Lord’s …global curse?!’
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Don’t let your personal sinflammation,
trigger societal, then global sinflation…
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1 See: John 8:1-11 and Romans 1:28 (KJV).
2 Reprobation - disapproval, condemnation, censure, rejection. See: Titus:15-16.
3 Jeremiah 9:23-24 succinctly summarize The Lord’s strategy in the Earth. Ezekiel:12-23 summarize His preferred judgment tactics, once His Grace/loving-kindness expires without sinners’ repentance. This strategy is evidenced in humanity since Adam, and remains heavily operational TODAY. Look for it in your own life, family, society and nation.
4 Ponder the extent to which The Lord’s four judgment henchmen, promised in Ezekiel 14:12-23, can easily trigger inflation and even hyper-inflation across a land! Wars especially trigger inflation because increasing amounts of labor and capital are engaged in producing goods that are quickly BLOWN UP, and services that support the war effort rather than normal lifestyles. Yet, in all our ‘smartness’, we humans TOTALLY discount and then ignore ANY connections at all between our sinfulness, on one hand, and The Lord’s promised sin-judgments (wars, pestilence, famine and wild beast attacks), He declared in Ezekiel 14. See: Four Judgment Henchmen, Explained.
5 Welcome! You're among the surviving remnant of the global Covid pandemic. The word, remnant, is found 85 times in the Bible (NKJV), a whopping 36 times are in the books of Isaiah and Jeremiah that cover a pivotal times of judgment in ancient Israel’s history! Search the links to understand what was so heavily on The Lord’s mind, and why, even in judgments, He planned for a remnant.
6 See: Matthew 5:13-16
