What if I lost my job tomorrow? The natural reaction would be to be afraid. In the natural it is easier to trust in your job than it is to trust in God as the ultimate source of your financial security. The job and the paycheck are visible and real. God is invisible, which can make the whole spiritual thing seem unsubstantial and unreliable.
Exactly the opposite is true. If we don’t learn anything else from the current economic distress, let us at least learn this. We can’t put our final trust in anything visible. Who would have ever dreamed that Citibank could go broke? The seeming reliability of the visible is a lie. The invisible God will never change and can never fail. Let us put all of our trust in Him as we weather the storms of life.
“For our present troubles are small and won’t last very long. Yet they produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever! So we don’t look at the troubles we can see now; rather, we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen. For the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever.” (2 Cor. 4:17, 18 NLT)
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