Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? Matthew 6:26-27
By awesome deeds you answer us with righteousness, O God of our salvation, the hope of all the ends of the earth and of the farthest seas; Psalm 65:5
There’s been a few times in my 36 years of marriage when we experienced serious financial loss. The first time it was devastating. I felt lost and unsure of our future. It was hard not blaming and feeling angry. I wasn’t a woman of faith at the time so I turned inward to chastise myself over and over and then outward condemning anyone associated with the loss. I dwelt over it, turning the situation around in my head during endless, sleepless nights. Each time I drove past the business project in which we had invested the scab was re-opened and for days I would feel those same feelings all over again.
Fast forward many years when my husband’s business and another investment came under dramatic assault due to Covid restrictions and fear. We saw all that we had built potentially crumbling beneath us. This loss was potentially greater, effecting our retirement and even our home. This time, however was different.
I frequently found myself at peace. Sure, I’d get scared. I’d worry about the stress my husband was under. This time I had someone to tell me there was a purpose to the plan. To tell me He would give us the manna and the honey because He is the Lord who provides.
We have two choices to make when difficulties attack our lives. We can turn to our emotions and fears or we can turn to Jesus. When we allow our fears to take over, we get angry, we blame, we get depressed. For people like me I wear myself out alternately beating myself up (you shouldn’t have taken that vacation last year! That money could help us now!) or obsessing over how to fix an unfixable problem. For some they withdraw from the world all together feeling hopeless.
When I finally learned, and most of all believed, that God is who we turn to satisfy and squash our fears I experienced freedom. He is a miracle worker. He can bring water from a stone. Turn water into wine. No matter what we face in the coming years we need to remember to seek God for all we need. Pray, praise and trust then repeat.
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