There is a marked difference between those in whom Jesus lives His life and those who do not have eternal life working in them. When crisis hits, when the rains come down as a deluge, when the winds beat like a hurricane and flood waters threaten to wash the stuff of life away, some houses stand firm, and some are destroyed.

Followers of Jesus can stand firm because of the One dwelling in them. The Holy Spirit in us is the same life and power that raised Jesus from the dead. Standing in the storms of life is not a function of who we are or what we have done but is solely due to Who Jesus is and what He has done. We are never alone. 

Jesus told us that in the world we WOULD have trials and great difficulties, to we are to take heart, because He has overcome the world. Temporal things swirling around us can never alter what Jesus has done and is doing in us. Nothing in life or death can separate us from the Love of God given us; that is for us an eternal artesian wellspring in Jesus Christ.

For others without such an eternal hope, crisis can become a blinding terror. Left only to rely on human resources and finite wisdom, the shelves are soon stripped bare not due to real need, but due to fear that has become the handmaiden of panic. People are usually afraid of threats they neither understand nor have the capacity to stop. 

We are not unfamiliar with fear, but we have One who has already conquered sin, death and the grave. You have hope living in you, riches much greater than silver or gold. What you do have, you can give in the authority and power of Jesus’ Name.