Accomplishments

The recent financial turmoils is like a roller coaster ride. You will never know what the next drop will be like. Fear is felt everywhere and the ringing word in my mind has always been Perfect love casts out fear. Can our fear be cast out so easily? We read news of people with great accomplishments losing their wealth overnight. Jobs lost and bonus gone for the savvy investment bankers. The future is indeed bleak and unsettling. I am of course worried especially in running businesses. Rent, Wages, Operations, Sales. Can we survive the next two years?

So in times like these, I seek comfort in His eternal Words

Isaiah 26
3 You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you.
4 Trust in the LORD forever, for the LORD, the LORD, is the Rock eternal. (Indeed He is!)

5 He humbles those who dwell on high, he lays the lofty city low; he levels it to the ground and casts it down to the dust.
6 Feet trample it down— the feet of the oppressed, the footsteps of the poor. (His judgement is sure)

7 The path of the righteous is level; O upright One, you make the way of the righteous smooth.
8 Yes, LORD, walking in the way of your laws, we wait for you; your name and renown are the desire of our hearts. (Seek His righteousness and live!)

9 My soul yearns for you in the night; in the morning my spirit longs for you. When your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness. (There is purpose in His judgement)

10 Though grace is shown to the wicked, they do not learn righteousness; even in a land of uprightness they go on doing evil and regard not the majesty of the LORD.
11 O LORD, your hand is lifted high, but they do not see it. Let them see your zeal for your people and be put to shame; let the fire reserved for your enemies consume them. (I pray against greed in our land.... the cause of many downfalls)

12 LORD, you establish peace for us;
all that we have accomplished you have done for us.

I thank God for the peace that guards my heart, as all my accomplishments have been done by Him alone. Amen.