Monday, January 26, 2009 - When Life Throws You a Curveball
I’m a big baseball fan. I was raised with two brothers and a father who loved baseball, so it became our family sport, I guess. At any rate, I really love the game and I hope to be around when the Chicago Cubs win the World Series. After a one hundred year dry spell, it’s about time!
However, I must admit that I have a hard time distinguishing one pitch from another. There are fast balls and screw balls, split-finger balls and knuckle balls, to mention a few. But the one that seems to give the most trouble is the curve ball. It comes at you one way, and then it suddenly curves another way, making it very difficult to hit.
Whether or not you know anything about baseball, you know what a curveball is in life. It’s that unexpected turn in the road that takes you where you don’t want to go. It’s that unwanted circumstance—or person—or event—that turns everything topsy-turvy and leaves you bewildered and discouraged.
What curveball has life thrown at you recently? With our current economic crisis, no doubt many have been thrown a financial curveball. You had money put aside for retirement or savings, you thought you invested well, and now that nest egg is worth considerably less than it was last year. You had a good job with a good organization, then one day you heard those dreaded words, “We have to lay you off.” You just learned that the value of your home is now less than you owe on it! Those are financial curveballs for sure.
David wrote, When the foundations are being destroyed, what can the righteous do? (Psalm 11:3) What are we to do when it feels like our financial foundations are being destroyed? Do we really believe Philippians 4:19, which says, My God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus?
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