Should Have Bought Crackers

I think the whole world knows that this last week the stock markets took a tumble. I really feel for all the people who have been getting ready to retire soon. I have heard many of them say that they "lost" a fortune. Yes it is still true that money has wings and flies away!

I went grocery shopping the other day and I was equally shocked by the cost of food. I think Walmart must be planning on not selling a good deal of their "stuff", so instead they raised the price of food. I've never really played the stock market, but oh if I only knew that Great Value brand crackers were going to go from 69 cents 2 weeks ago to $1.09 this week, boy could I have made a killing! I could have cashed my whole paycheck and bought a couple thousand boxes of Great Value Saltines and then sold them again this week and made a few hundred dollars! Oh, why was I not born with market savey intuition!! But I bet not many people in America have even thought too hard about playing the cracker market.

Hind sight is always 20/20, and if we only knew a month ago what we know now.........oh, well. Jesus told us not to store up our treasure here on earth, but to store it up in heaven. Hopefully we are thinking more about that now. It doesn't matter how much we think we have because it can disappear so quickly. And there's not even a really good explanation for it either!

Trust God because it was all His before the "financial crisis" and it is still ALL HIS today. He is our provider and we should never feel secure because of money. If you still feel worried or uptight, ask God to help you let go of it and just trust Him.


--Johnie