Turn Back

November 11

Food. Shelter. Clothing. Life’s basic necessities. They’re pretty simple. Yet, many people subsist with the most meager supply of these things we can’t do without. More and more of us are coming to realize that the entities we trusted to sustain the ‘good life’ we’ve come to enjoy, to expect, are letting us down.

Businesses are failing. Giant, world-wide conglomerates are closing their doors. Employers who had supplied jobs to thousands of well-paid workers have outsourced much of their production to foreign countries. Small businesses are taxed into oblivion. Governments are bankrupt.

We are ‘tightening our belts.’ We don’t like what we see happening all around us and to us, but we are helpless to redeem the old way, the way of prosperity and blessing. While some see only an economic or political cause to today’s woe, many see a spiritual reason. We have turned our backs on the God who abundantly blessed us—and it appears because of our departure from Him—He has turned His back on us.

Perhaps with all the schemes we submit to—governmental interventions to bolster a faltering economy that seem instead to plunge us into debt that will impact generations to come—we should try the one thing we know works. Perhaps we should turn back to Jesus. Perhaps we should appropriate His promise in John 6:35, “I am the Bread of Life; he who comes to me will never hunger and he who believes in Me will never thirst.”