The Sky is Falling

Tonight while watching TV and interesting commercial caught my attention:

The opening shot is of a man holding a small square hamburger, sitting all alone on a park bench with people walking in the background. He takes the hamburger and begins savoring every bit with great anticipation. As he begins to take a bit someone in the background yells, "The sky's falling!" Suddenly puffy white clouds begin to hit the ground. One, then two, another and then another. With each thud the crowd begins to run for their lives.

As the scene continues attention is placed on the clouds, one of which squashes an SUV while people pile out from every direction. Quickly the shot pans back to the burger eater. As if frozen in time he takes a bit and acts as if nothing is happening around him while just yards away another cloud booms from falling to the earth.

I wonder how many of us believe the sky is falling. If I heard it one time I heard it hundreds over the last week, "If Obama is elected what are we gonna do?" Unfortunately I get included in the question as if I agree with the summation.

Do we really believe the sky is falling? Can one man have that much influence? Should we be scared?

Incredible those who were crying "the sky is falling" don't understand the promises and truths found in the Bible. Why is it that so many who claim Jesus as Lord, react in fear when times are uncertain.

2 Timothy 1:7 (NIV)
⁷ For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline.

Psalms 20:6-7 (NIV)
⁶ Now I know that the LORD saves his anointed; he answers him from his holy heaven with the saving power of his right hand.
⁷ Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.

Just in these two verses we find a followers response to troubling times. The word timidity is translated as fear. Fear paralyzes so many in a time when standing firm on the hope of Christ is important to those without Him, those who need Him most. What do you trust in?

The economy, the president, the United States?

Christ follower, stop letting the winds of this world blow you into unbelief.

Obama will be president only because God allows it.

By the way the commercial I noted was for Krystal, that great stomach bomb hamburger joint. I too tend to forget the things around me when I eat those little colon cleansers.