Throwing Our Posterity Under the Bus

My 15 year old son and I were discussing economics recently (he's very interested in politics and economics) when the wickedness of what we are doing economically as a country really struck me.

We have created a economic situation in our country that is sure to do harm to our posterity if we don't do something about it. If we don't start taking drastic measures to change things, somewhere down the line our posterity will pay the price, yet we keep on doing the same old irresponsible things that started it all in the first place.

Because it hasn't had a very adverse effect on us yet we just go on our merry way. Because we're still fairly comfortable we're happy with the way things are. Working to solve the problem would be difficult and that might be uncomfortable, and why make ourselves uncomfortable when we can possibly avoid the consequences of our actions and leave them to another generation to deal with?

If you think about it we do the very same thing in numerous other ways. We put our children in government schools because its easy and the immediate consequences of our actions are hard to see. We elect the politicians who keep the status quo because we're comfortable with life the way it is right now. We make all sorts of compromises with sin because it makes our life easier at the moment. We don't share the gospel which could potentially change generations of a family because we fear the discomfort of possible rejection or persecution. We sit in bad churches because we're comfortable or our kids like it there, unconcerned about the long range effect it might have on them spiritually. We fail to train our children because right now it's easier not too. Or worse yet we just skip having the children because in the short term it's a lot less of a hassle.

We seem to be spiritually myopic and all too willing to throw our posterity under the bus, so to speak, in order to be comfortable now and avoid some difficult work.