Recession Positive

Wouldn’t you like to be recession proof?  I would.

Who wouldn’t?

What if I told you that jockeying yourself for recession proofness will, most likely, do nothing but make you more recession prone?

Becoming recession proof, typically, involves the amassing of wealth to sustain you during difficult times.  As unlikely as it might seem, there may come a time soon when the amassing of wealth may become about as futile as the amassing of monopoly money.  If inflation skyrockets, what will you do then?  Would it not be better to divest yourself of the materialism, debt, entertainment attachments, and inordinate financial obligations that bind you like a straight jacket and that limit your movements like a prisoner's ball and chain?

But let's just say such inflation doesn't occur, what then about the amassing of wealth and stuff?

If you have a million in the bank, but have a leanness of soul that keeps you from enjoying what you have, are you really that wealthy?  I would argue that you aren’t.  The world boasts of many who are monetarily well-off, and yet poverty-stricken in heart.  It is the happy men and women in the world—those who are happy irrespective of the “available balance” in their check books or the number of vintage cars in their garages—that are, in my estimation, the wealthiest people on earth.  What I would like to suggest here and now is that rather than being recession proof, they (those happy few) are recession positive.  Recession happy, even.

Recession positive?  Recession happy?  This all sounds so very strange to me.  What, in heaven, are you talking about?

Just this...being positive about things in the midst of what has turned out to be a significant economic downturn.  Being happy in it—perhaps, even, over it.

Positive?  How can you be positive about such things?

It’s quite easily, actually.  To illustrate its ease, I’d like to ask a very simple question of you parents out there.

Are you ready?  Okay, here it is…

When you began to wean your child off breast milk (or formula), was such a thing positive?

Of course it was.

Okay, why?

Because it allowed my son to begin to eat solid food and, eventually, grow into the healthy child he is today.

Cool.  Well…that’s the very purpose of recession:  to wean you off of that which doesn’t satisfy so that you might pursue that which does.  Many, many years ago, a brilliant man wrote about such things when he penned the following in Isaiah 55:1:  “Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy, and eat.”  He who has no money, come, buy, and eat.  Buy with no money?  That, my friends, is the purpose of recession:  to bring you to the place where you see your real needs and "buy" that which you need (and really can purchase) without money.  Acceptance, forgiveness, love, happiness, cleansing, peace, significance, rest, and purpose...these are the commodities of God's Spirit, and, in His economy, money is worthless when it comes to such things.

Please think about all of this prayerfully, my friends, and, perhaps, we’ll talk more about this subject at a later date.

Good night,

Daver