In Boxing there is a phrase "Down but not out!" This refers to when a boxer is knocked down but he is not knocked out. That means that he can still get up again and may even still win. The other phrase that is used is, "It is not how many times you get knocked down that counts, but how many times you get up!"
It kind of a sad time for us all, because the economic news continues to not be good. Although the paper and newscasters say that we have bottomed out and I read the Orlando Business Journal today that said we have been improving for the last 4 months (translated that means that each month we were a little less behind than we were in April). Yet daily someone else brings in a resume and asks me to be on the look out for them as they have lost their job. We have people who are losing their homes and families where both have lost jobs and business owners that have had to lay off 85% of their workforce. There are people getting divorces and people working for much less than they are worth. There are young people who have graduated and can not find a job in their field and youth who planned on college that have had to put it off!
Without a doubt we have been knocked down! But for those of us who know that the Lord is still in control, we are not out! When things are being taken away in our lives we have the tendency to dwell on what we have "lost" rather than to look at what we still have. Everything that we have is a blessing from God, a gift if you will, so who are we to cry that we might not have all that we did a couple of years ago? One of the Old Testament Prophets said "Is the arm of God too short to reach you with His gifts?
We have a great God who is able to do even more that we can ask, so we should not dispair, our God is still in Control!!!!
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