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PROGRAM D-8410
So, how do we face financially tough times and weather the storm they can bring?
I’ve encouraged you with four don’ts for tough times:
- Don’t be like the turkeys who run from the trouble and pile up on each other and some get suffocated. We should not run away or commiserate with each other in our own version of a “pile-up.”
- Don’t be like Chicken Little who jumps to conclusions and becomes hysterical and irrational for no good reason—and spreads her fear to those around her.
- Don’t be like the ostrich who sticks his head in the sand and lives in denial.
- Don’t be like the buzzard who circles the carcasses and lives off dead things. Don’t be sucked into the doom and gloom around you.
Instead, as you face tough times, financial or otherwise, you need to be like the eagle, who prepares for the storm that is coming. Instead of flying off and trying to escape it, he uses the winds of the storm to fly higher and higher until he is above the storm. While others merely weather a tough time and simply try to survive, we have the ability as believers in Jesus Christ to rise above it.
This passage from Isaiah is very appropriate for us when we’re facing tough times:
Although the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, your teachers will be hidden no more; with your own eyes you will see them. Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way; walk in it.” (Isaiah 30:20-21)
So, be like the eagle, and use the wind of God’s Spirit to fly above the storm you are facing. He’ll guide you through it and show you the way you should go, if you seek him with your whole heart.