If you fall to pieces in a crisis, there wasn’t much to you in the first place.  Proverbs 24:10 (TM)

I had to chew on this one this morning. At first reading it seems almost insensitive. I mean, it’s perfectly natural for people to react to crisis situations. But, the proverb doesn’t say that you shouldn’t be emotional or you shouldn’t struggle – it says that you shouldn’t fall apart.

As believers in an Almighty God, we are to have faith in God’s presence and purpose, even in the worst of circumstances. I always think of Corrie Ten Boom’s recollection of being in a Nazi concentration camp with her sister. In the midst of the muck and mire of the camp, in the midst of the stench of death, in the midst of the terrible inhumanity – Corrie’s sister stood at roll call one morning and, with joy, commented on the beauty of the birds who were flying above the camp.

People of faith can raise the eyes of their spirit above the crisis, to trust in God’s ultimate purpose.
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