In HIS Holy Scriptures the Lord God has given us humans a lot of good advice. HE used Moses as HIS instrument to write much of it. For example, in the Scripture’s Old Testament Book of Numbers, Chapter 32, Verse 23, it is written: “if ..ye have sinned against the Lord, be sure your sin will find you out.”

It has been both amusing and scary to watch events of this past week play out in regard to former chief prosecutor, Attorney General and Governor of New York Eliot Spitzer. As the chief law enforcement officer of New York he famously pursued many people and businesses, including prostitutes and their organizations, to enhance his own reputation. It was a strategy which he obviously intended to use to promote himself to higher office. It is said he even planned next to run for President of the United States.

Now that he has been caught using prostitues, his name will be famous all right. Want to call someone “two-faced”? Just refer to them as an “Eliot Spitzer”. Want to call someone a “demagogue”? An “Eliot Spitzer” will do just as well.

To some that will be amusing, and well deserved. However, it is not amusing to many of you, and us, who are trying to encourage the young people in our society to reach for higher goals. How many people, young and old, may now make dreadful decisions, negatively affecting their lives, while maybe even sub-consciously thinking of Eliot Spitzer and justifying it as “everybody does it”. That’s the scary part.

Well...everybody doesn’t do it! And if you want God to bless you, you must live your life in a way that is blessable. Watch what happens to Eliot Spitzer in the future. You can be sure it will be the opposite of blessed.

David Eller, Publisher

3-13-08