When a business is failing—when sales are sliding and losses are mounting—the time has come to turn to God more than ever before and spiritualize one's thinking.
A beautiful verse in the Bible spells out clearly the endless good we may expect to receive by turning to God as the source of good: "Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
In the Bible James writes: "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
Once when I was stewing about how busy and disorganized my life as a college student was, and anticipating another sphere of activity, a professor said to me, "Don't you know that this is life, right now?