Are you trusting God?
January 5, 2009 (Monday)
We all know that 2008 was a bad year economically, but the question in the minds of many people now is, “What does 2009 hold for us?” One headline screams that 2009 will be worse than 2008. Who really knows? A late economist pointed out that people who make predictions fall into one of two classes: “Those who don’t know, and those who don’t know that they don’t know.”
What do we know? We know that businesses are in trouble, some banks are unsteady, credit is hard to get, people are being laid off, and individual contractors are seeing their opportunities for profit dwindle. Governments, including our own, are pumping unbelievable amounts of money into private business, hoping to change the trends.
We also know that things change sooner or later. Ultimately it will all get better. We base that assumption on past experience. Seem to be the nature of economics.
When I talk about such things, I feel like a little boy who has been eavesdropping on a meeting of corporate moguls. I understand the words, but I know deep inside I don’t understand the situation.
One thing I know, and that is that God loves us. He is our Good Shepherd and we are the sheep of his pasture. He never did promise to make us rich, but he promised to care about us and to take care of us. We join the Psalmist in saying, “My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.” We read again with great interest Paul’s letter to Philippi of old, telling all God’s people, “My God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.” God still says to us, as he did in the days of Malachi, “Trust me. Try me. Prove me.”