“A time to get and a time to lose”  Ecclesiasties.

Today the stock market dropped to it’s lowest in over ten years.  Most of you reading this are probably not invested but I think it important for you to read the quote below and learn a lesson now before you are older and forget that everything has its season and the outward condition of any man does not determine his/her spiritual condition. OR God’s disposition towards them…

Some people make a lot of money, living in a time for gain. Others lose a great deal.  Prosperity is His gift, and so are stock-market crashes.  God allows us to store it all up. He appoints the day we throw it away, not caring about it any more.  God is the one who gives the power to get wealth (Dt. 8.18). And when men forget Him, He is the one who brings financial calamity upon them  “Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store” (Dt. 28.17).  The commotion of the stock market reveals the hubris of man better than few other things.  We believe we can pump up the Dow forever and make money at a fine clip forever… but we cannot.  The cycles ordained by God for everything in this fallen and silly world will come around again, and many a millionaire will go white in deisbeleif.  “How could this happen?”  Friend, look at the world. How could it not?

Douglas Wilson,  Joy at the end of the tether.  The inscrutable wisdom of ecclesiastes.

It is appropriate at these times to give thanks to our loving Father who knows much better than we what we need.