DEPENDS WHERE YOU LIVE…..
continuing….The economic situation continues to confound . Seems to me that the 'experts'are as confused as a termite in a yo-yo ! I`ve heard about people –good Christian people –panicking and deciding to sell their stock and 'get out while they can.'I am not even going to attempt to advise you on the economics . That is your call . I`m interested in how and why people make decisions ,how much they depend for their future peace of mind and well-being on issues completely out of their control and based solely on material values . This is a really good time to check out where your confidence lies and how much you know of God`s voice and the 'umpire'of Holy Spirit in your soul .
My friend Michael Dearinger read a scripture to me yesterday:John 16:33:“I have told you these things,so that IN ME you may have peace. IN THIS WORLD you will have trouble . But Take Heart ! I have overcome the world .” A clear choice there . We can either live IN HIM or live in THIS WORLD . Now ,of course we live in this world in the sense that we breathe,eat ,love and work etc ,but what the Lord is saying is that your sense of peace depends on living in Him -the solid Rock –and not being sustained by a bankrupt ,morally deficient and rebellious world .
I wrote a short while ago about a friend who lives in Zimbabwe . The rate of inflation ,last week was 230,000,000% –I`m not making this up ! That`s 230 million percent . Insanity ,of course . My friend hammered home to me as I marveled at how he was managing to prosper ,build and spread the Kingdom in such circumstances:'Andrew ,I don`t live in Zimbabwe ,I live in the Kingdom.'I was rebuked and encouraged at the same time . So where do you live ?
IN HIM ,I hope . The Kingdom is here and is advancing .