Keep That Thought!

The next time you're breaking down cardboard boxes, consider what one clever entrepreneur did with cardboard: he sells life-size cardboard pictures of kids to parents who want to slow speeding motorists in their neighborhoods. Apparently, the cardboard cut-outs look so much like real children to motorists, they reduce their speed making neighborhoods safer. Yeah, I had the same thought: why didn't I think of that!

What does it take to slow us down: health problems, a broken family, job loss, financial hardship, a catastrophic event?  We live in seriously difficult times and the fear that everything is out-of-control rages. The Prophet Samuel wrote contrary to this way of thought: "The Lord kills and makes alive; He brings down to the grave and brings up. The Lord makes poor and makes rich; He brings low and lifts up. He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the beggar from the ash heap, to set them among princes and make them inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are the Lord's, and He has set the world upon them ... For by strength no man shall prevail." (2 Samuel 2:6-9)  That is The Biblical Worldview! Despite an uncertain economy  -- God is in control!  No matter who becomes our next president -- God is in control!  In times of war and peace -- God is in control!  Regardless of public opinions and polls -- God is in control. Remember what the psalmist said, "Be still and know that I am God" (46:10a), but do you know what happens when we do? He is "exalted among the nations" and "exalted in the earth!" (46:10b)  When Believers stop and apply what they SAY they believe -- the living breathing Truth of God -- we see He really is high above the difficulties and uncertainties of today and tomorrow. Did you just have a "why-didn't-I-think-of-that" moment?  Well, keep-that-thought and make it real  today!