by Deborah Stewart

Created on: January 18, 2009   Last Updated: February 17, 2011

It is often in the Valley of Sorrow and Despair that we meet Jesus.

Anything that causes us to lose our spiritual peace is not of God. Spiritual peace is our heart's assurance that we are in a healthy and loving relationship with our Creator. If we have spiritual peace, we can withstand the effects of any emergency, disaster, loss attack or devastation. How? Because that spiritual peace is the evidence that we are hidden within the magnificent wings of Our Heavenly Father. We are enveloped by that love-that power-that promise that God will never leave us nor forsake us.

And what of money? We have to live.  How many sermons are delivered from the pulpits on the subject of "Money Is The Root Of All Evil." My friend, that is one of the most misquoted scriptures in the Holy Bible! The actual quote is: "The LOVE of Money Is The Root of All Evil".

Our economy has collapsed. Unemployment is at it's highest rate since the Great Depression. Though they dare not use the word; we are in a depression now. Even college students' statistics at finding jobs after graduation is frightening! Many are hungry, and more people have lost their homes in the past three years than in our history. Social Security threatens to disappear because they claim the funds have all but run out. The number of homeless is unbelievable.

If it is money that "makes the world go 'round;" then many have had their world stop dead still on it's axis. Our economy is a living nightmare, and so many have held their portfolios, savings and retirement accounts as their life preserver. But the crash came in 2008 like a tidal wave, and we are till trying to assess the damage from the floods which ripped away our financial securities, our homes, our possessions and our futures.

We cry out to God in our disaster, and ask how He could let such things happen. "Where was the hand of God when this financial Tsunami hit us here in the United States so hard that the impact was felt around the world?" we wonder. Do we immediately thank God when good comes into our lives, as we immediately blame Him when the bad happens? Do we see God's presence as a system of rewards and punishments? How truly terrible would that be? We would all be damned if that were the case! For not one of us deserves anything but hell-except for the pure and Holy Blood of Jesus Christ!

The ears of God must have been burning with the countless cries of terror and despair from victims unnumbered! Why do we always blame God when things go wrong

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