In times like these, let your trust and hope be in the Lord.
September 19, 2008 (Friday)
Today marks one week since Hurricane Ike’s outer bands and storm surge began coming ashore. Electric power ceased at the Timbergrove Baptist Church, at my residence, and in 2,000,000 other places in the Houston area. It has not yet been restored, so I am at ease in Rockport, having made the trip here Tuesday.
I had a radio in Houston but all I listened to was information about the hurricane and its aftermath. After arriving in Rockport, I discovered there is something else happening in the world. The television and other media are focusing on the economy, This week the stock market has seen the biggest drop in years, followed by the biggest gain in years. Another big business has gone bankrupt and still another has been rescued by the federal government. The present financial situation in the USA is affecting the entire world of business and investment, and the Senate Majority Leader is saying, “We don’t know what to do.”
Charles Dickens, in ”A Tale of Two Cities,” wrote of an earlier era, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way – in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.”
In times like these, let your trust and hope be in the Lord.