day 1364: Rising Up

"He isn’t here! He is risen from the dead, just as he said would happen. Come, see where his body was lying."

The markets are in a bit of a tizzy because the tech stocks that rose so quickly last year are now falling. What goes up, must come down, correct?  It's hard from the inside to watch these stocks fall., but I know from experience what it means to watch the fall from within and have to manage against the pressures of, "Do something about it, now!"  Here is what we can all remember.  What does go up, does come down.  Maybe not all the way down, but everything adjusts and then can recover.  Business cycles are not elevator shafts that only have two directions. Business cycles are roller coasters that chug up the hill and then give us a thrill of speed as it goes up and down and twists and turns. And, if managed and powered correctly, they come back up the hill once again.  Few things can rise up and stay!

You know where this post is going don't you?  Nothing in our life rises and then stays, except for what we celebrated yesterday on Easter.  We are conditioned in life for everything to rise and then keep rising.  When it doesn't we get depressed, frustrated, angry, or lost.  That's the wrong take.  The right take is that we can give all those areas in our lives that fall, to God and He will pick them up and keep them with Him as He continues to rise. What are the areas at work that we just need to hand over to God because the more we hang on to them the more we are being dragged further down?

Reference:  Matthew 28:6 (New Living Translation)