SENTINEL WATCH September 27, 2010 Issue

EXCHANGE FINANCIAL FEARS FOR TRUST IN GOD

LINDA LEITZ

AS A FINANCIAL PLANNER, I've seen how a change of thought can radically impact someone's financial situation. If clients are experiencing major adjustment in their lives—a divorce, the death of a spouse, the loss of a job—they can be fearful about where they'll find enough money to live.

Such fears are understandable, of course, but a statement from Mary Baker Eddy's book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures has always helped me in my prayers about such issues: "Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need" (p. 494).

Another source of guidance is the account in the Bible of a widow whose sons were about to be sold to pay the family's debts. When she asked the prophet Elisha for help, he instructed her to take her single bottle of oil and fill as many jars as her sons could find for her. Although she had only one bottle of oil, she filled enough containers so that she could sell the oil, pay her creditors, and live on the rest (see II Kings 4:1–7). To me, this shows that God supplies our needs in tangible ways, even though we may not always know exactly how this will happen.

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