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Want to buy a really inexpensive home? You can do so in and around the city of Detroit, Michigan. The environment is not good, and City services are poor and getting worse. The largest public bankruptcy in history is now in trial.

DETROIT (AP) — Detroit residents are “highly taxed” and imposing even higher taxes wouldn’t be a good way to take the city out of bankruptcy, the chief financial officer testified Friday. John Hill, who was recruited last fall from Washington, D.C., wrapped up his testimony at a trial that will determine whether Detroit emerges from the largest public bankruptcy in U.S. history. The trial in front of Judge Steven Rhodes began Tuesday and will last for weeks.

Over a multitude of years the political machine has bled the city dry. The worse things got, the more taxes went up. The more taxes went up, the worse things got. The rich got richer, and the poor got poorer. The latter grew faster than the former, and here we are. Is there a solution? Probably not. . .unless YOU get to provide the wherewithal for the bail-out.

It is not unlike the Biblical admonition, “Be sure your sins will find you out” (Numbers 32:23). Somehow people believe they can keep doing the wrong thing over and over again and somewhere down the line everything will turn out OK. It just doesn’t work that way. The Scripture is clear that God’s grace is sufficient for finding new, rich, full, wonderful life. It won’t happen if you keep going in the wrong direction. The word “repent” in Scripture means to “turn around.” Move in a new direction. Follow the Savior.

I thinking there are a lot of people in Detroit – or who used to be in Detroit – who are wishing they had chosen another path.