Live It!

The next time you're breaking down cardboard boxes, consider what one clever entrepreneur did with cardboard: he makes-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 motorists slow-down, making neighborhoods safer. What an idea - 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?  No doubt, we live in seriously difficult times, and fear that everything is out-of-control rages. Hannah prayed against 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." (1 Samuel 2:6-9)  That is the Biblical worldview! Despite uncertainties, God certainly reigns - is in control!  Why [then] do we struggle so to live in this Truth? God said, "Be still and know that I am God." This is how He is "exalted among the nations ... exalted in the earth!", thus exalted" in our lives. (Psalm 46:10). When Believers stop and [actually] apply-live what they SAY they believe, we see He really is high above all the chaos and confusion. Hold and put-forth that Truth - LIVE IT!