Investors, Brokers, God, and the Regular Person

Investors like results. They want the market to go up. They understand that a healthy market goes up and down but they expect in the long run for it to go up. Ever since the market starting to tank, investors have been nervous and now they just want out.

Brokers understand that there must be money in the market for the market to get more money. When investors pull their money out, it’s bad news for the market, so a broker is going to tell an investor to keep their money in the market. 

Investors have ultimate control over their money and since most of them have type A personalities, they want to do things the way that they want to do them. If they want out, they’re gonna get out.

The rest of us don’t really want to have anything to do with wall street. It is frustrating enough to witness the greed and to watch a ton of people dressed to the hilt throw money around as if it weren’t real money.

In the middle of this sinking ship, witnessing panic on people’s faces, reading about some people take their own lives instead of face whatever is next, hearing reports of uncertainty, knowing friends who have lost jobs, and knowing that there is no guarantee in this life, what is the regular person supposed to do?

We trust God. We trust that He is faithful and will deliver on His promises of eternal life and no need of worry. I think sometimes we trust God with yellow caution tape strapped around our trust but I think this is a good thing. A lot of people thought that God was blessing them when they were approved a few years ago by a bank for a home loan. A home that eventually would foreclose on them and would foreclose on their faith as well. A lot of people thought that God was blessing them with income that they spent on items they didn’t need only to lose their job this week and not have any savings. I think the caution around trusting God is good, because well, this might sound a little weird but, I think that a great goal of the evil beast or Satan is to shade our perspective so that we either think we’re right in our faith or we think we’re trusting in God when we’re not. I think the caution around trust in God is wisdom.

When investors don’t have money or aren’t making money, money stops circulating. When money stops circulating, everything slows down. I’m not a Christian who thinks God wants us to slow down. I think that God has no problem keeping up with a fast pace. It’s just how the economy works.

I work best when I put my trust in God. I think for me that my biggest trust in God is when I am obedient to authority that I disagree with. I'm not talking about being a door mat, I'm talking about trying new things, learning that my personal experience isn't sufficient to guide me to all of the right answers. I must rely on others and I must rely on God and I want to. I enjoy life when I accept and am content with where I am, so that's what I, as just a regular person, am hoping to do at this point in our history when things are looking bleak and looking like they are only going to get bleaker.