FEAR

You can almost smell it, it's so thick around here. I was in a worship service this weekend at our church, and the pastor was talking about stewardship. He opened up talking about several economists view of our country's financial condition, and it was mostly gloom and doom. He did bring it back around to say thatr our hope is in Christ, but not before the collective sense of fear sucked the air out of the room. People are terrified, believer and non-believer alike.

I work with churches a lot, and the recurring theme I see is that while more and more are turning to the church and to Christ, giving is down. What's the problem? Unemployment? It's 7-8 %....which means EMPLOYMENT is at 92-93%. While the stock market is down, it seems people are still making money, but they're holding on to it. It seems to me that we've done a bad job as the Church combating fear with education- making people aware of the fear being spread, and offering them hope by following what God says about the money he gives us. Part of worshiping God is obeying His Word, and His Wordsays that we are to give back at least a tenth of what He gave to us through our work.....HE gav eit to us, so ultimately He should be the one to make the rules, right?

So anyway, I choose today not to be a slave to fear, but to trust and obey what God tells me to do with what He gave me to manage for Him. That's my two cents on that.