The Kingdom and Loans
One day after another, I hear about the collapse of the housing loan market. I hear about the banks and the financial lending institutions which are collapsing and unable the meet the pressures of their defaulting loans.
Is there anyone out there who has heard a single story about the people, the actual flesh and blood people, who were duped into these non-fixed mortgages and whose lives are no ruined as a result?
Why do we care so much about the banks and so little about the people who were ruined by these banks?
If we believe that “the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and justice for the poor” (Psalm 140) and is “a defense for the helpless, a defense for the needy in his distress” (Isa. 25) and that the poor are the heirs of the kingdom of God (Luke 6:20-21), then how do we stand by like nothing is happening to these people?
