mere men.

This billboard is along I-35 in Wyoming, Minnesota. Nobody knows how paid for it or who put it there. I am not big into politics and I don't have a staunch opinion on Bush and his performance in office of Obama and is current performance, but I actually thing this billboard is pretty funny. I know there is a large, heated debate over it brewing on Capital Hill, but what else is knew? It is funny not because Obama is stinking it up or because Bush was "better," it is funny because it is so like us. It is how we are to wish we had what we don't have and to glamorize the past (when a year ago people were ready to string Bush up by his shoes) and then to glamorize the future (when just a year ago Obama was the savior of all the world).

Bush and Obama have more things in common than they have different....they are mere men, they are not saviors and they do not have powers to change things with the snap of a finger. Every problem in this world right now can be traced back to the Fall in Eden. These issues have thousands of years of weight behind them and mankind has thousands of years of experience in screwing things up and living selfishly. There is only One who can fix all of these problems, and yet we see in the Scriptures man bucking up wildly against the way that Jesus walked the earth. If we all sought to live as He lived, to walk in the ways of the Kingdom, these problems would all dissipate, but we also know that that will not completely happen until He returns.