Train Keeps a Rollin'
by R.C. Sproul Jr.

A Penchant for Predicting Disaster

I think it comes from an appropriately sound view of sin, but we Reformed folk certainly have a penchant for predicting disaster, especially as it relates to the economy. We know a thing or two about the evil, God-hating state, and its folly, and so find ourselves being the economic equivalent of dispensational Chicken Littles. (Mercy, now if that doesn’t make Gary mad, I don’t know what will.) We are running an economy on funny money. It seems perhaps that people are beginning to notice that profits haven’t managed to keep up with growth in the Dow Jones for the last five years. In fact, they haven’t even come close. We are beginning to realize as well that a service economy creates nothing to consume. But sadly what we miss is the very power of God’s design.

I’m not saying there are no bad economic times ahead. Nor am I suggesting that we need not make appropriate preparations for such hard times. I am saying that in doing our speculative calculus, we need to bring into the equation not only the wicked power of the state, but the awesome power of the market. The state destroys, while the dominion mandate drives us all to create. But which one is wearing the white hat? In the long run, we shall overcome. The train will reach the station. The state, and our own folly may cause some derailments along the way, but the Bible is still true, “I have been young, and now I am old; yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, or his descendants begging bread” (Psalm 37:25).

Train Keeps a Rollin' by R.C. Sproul Jr.

A Penchant for Predicting Disaster

Train Keeps a Rollin'
by R.C. Sproul Jr.