Jan 29 2009
When We Face Bad News
In the day in which we live, we face challenges our parents never faced. My father worked the same job for nearly forty years, and my mother was a homemaker. But life is seldom like that anymore.
These days we often struggle to keep a job for a year before companies are bought out, merged, or go under. And things don’t seem to be getting better. In fact, under the new stimulus package, pressure will be brought to bear to pay more taxes, which few can afford.
Many of us will be handed pink slips sometime this year, and it will seem our worlds have fallen apart. On top of the normal struggles, job losses will only compound heartache and despair.
So what is the answer? Jesus Christ is the answer. In spite of what we see with our eyes, Jesus never changes. He is the Rock on which we can feel secure, even when our worlds are falling apart and everything we’ve counted on disappears.
He promises that He doesn’t leave us, that His Spirit will be the lamp to our feet and the light to our path. And if you’ve read even a little of the Bible, you know about how He provides for those who love and serve Him.
If you have a personal relationship with Christ, you’ve confessed your sins and accepted His gift of salvation, He walks alongside you. He doesn’t necessarily fix things the way we hope He will or think He should, but He has a plan. That plan requires that we set aside our own personal agendas and refuse to tell God what He must do to fix things.
It requires us to seek His face first, dumping our pain and anger at His feet, and choosing to humble ourselves, waiting on Him to work things out for our good. When we finally admit our helplessness and the fact that we desperately need Him and have no way out, He is there for us.
And waiting is often the toughest part; wouldn’t you agree? But Psalms 37:3 tells us: “Trust in the Lord and do good. Dwell in the land and cultivate faithfulness. Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord, trust also in Him, and He will do it. Rest in the Lord and wait patiently for Him; those who wait for the Lord…will inherit the land.”
God is a very present help in time of need, no matter how bad things seem. Call upon Him in your day of trouble, and He will lift you up.
Because of His great love,
Nancy
