Looking Toward Economic Future...

Pastor Rich sent us this

Luke 12:16-21

And he told them this parable: "The ground of a certain rich man produced a good crop. He thought to himself, 'What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops.'

 "Then he said, 'This is what I'll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.  And I'll say to myself, "You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry." '

 "But God said to him, 'You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?'

 "This is how it will be with anyone who stores up things for himself but is not rich toward God."

 

There is wisdom in planning ahead, in being responsible with all that God has entrusted to us.  The issue is focus.  Think for a minute:  do you trust in your retirement plan, your investments?  Or do you trust God? We all, I think, immediately say, “I trust GOD!!!”  But the events of the past few weeks ought to reveal where our trust really lies...

I have been listening, raptly, to the rise and fall of the Dow. I remember panicking when my 401k was cut in half in 2004, and it had only recently recovered what I lost then. It will be the same with this crash. Interestingly, more and more, as I am uninsurable, I have come to the conclusion that I shall never stop teaching unless I can not work any longer. If I am incapacitated in some way, then I'll quit, but I'll go out fighting.

I've had to "let it go to God." It's all I can do at this point.