{"id":132,"date":"2009-03-11T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-11T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/drnorrischumleysatisfiedlife\/2009\/03\/god-on-the-verge-1.html"},"modified":"2009-03-11T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-11T01:00:00","slug":"god-on-the-verge-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/drnorrischumleysatisfiedlife\/2009\/03\/god-on-the-verge-1.html","title":{"rendered":"God on the Verge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t help feeling and thinking that I am on the verge, like most of us these days.&nbsp; On the verge, or edge, of a lot, good or bad.&nbsp; It&#8217;s an uncomfortable and tenuous position to be in, like &#8220;on the fence,&#8221; or &#8220;almost there.&#8221;&nbsp; I don&#8217;t like it!&nbsp; But I must put my faith into action again and again, and learn to love what God brings.&nbsp; I am learning to be comfortable on the verge.<\/p>\n<p>After months of anxiety and worry about the economy, we&#8217;re on the verge.&nbsp; Will the bottom come soon?&nbsp; Will it get worse?&nbsp; Like my friend Scott says, &#8220;Has the Titanic hit the iceberg yet?&#8221;&nbsp; God only knows.&nbsp; I say, &#8220;at least the Titanic had an orchestra!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After years of working hard, there&#8217;s more work to be done &#8211; more jobs to get, more money necessary to make ends meet.&nbsp; I&#8217;m on the verge of being financially sound and safe, but not quite there yet.&nbsp; I am going to stop worrying and take more actions. The time is now to spend less, conserve, work harder.&nbsp; God knows, we will survive.<\/p>\n<p>Being on the verge really really tests one&#8217;s faith.&nbsp; No longer able to take comfort or find strength in career, the job, the possessions, there&#8217;s only one thing to do when near or at the bottom.&nbsp; That is to put my entire life into the care of my Creator.<\/p>\n<p>So, I send you greetings from the edge.&nbsp; I wave to you, dear friend, with arm outstretched from the verge.&nbsp; The future is now so completely unknown, only one thing is clear: worrying doesn&#8217;t help.&nbsp; There&#8217;s no use in letting panic, dread or fear stop me in my tracks, and be stuck on the edge.&nbsp; The clear and only way is to have faith, stronger than ever before, that there is a reason why we&#8217;re falling and searching for answers.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re on the verge so we will reach for something more.&nbsp; Something more than money.&nbsp; Something more than a false sense of security from our pretty things, our big homes and car, our cool techno toys.&nbsp; Something REAL. The only reality I am finding is the one that is unseen, unheard, invisible to the limited human senses &#8211; a spiritual reality that exists because I have been rescued and revived time-and-time-again.&nbsp; GOD IS REAL.&nbsp; God exists.&nbsp; He doesn&#8217;t cost anything, either; all we need to do is ask him for help.&nbsp; Then help arrives; you can bank on it.<\/p>\n<p>More and more these days, I&#8217;m learning that putting all I have into God is the only stability I find.&nbsp; Everything else is only illusion and fleeting worldliness. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t help feeling and thinking that I am on the verge, like most of us these days.&nbsp; On the verge, or edge, of a lot, good or bad.&nbsp; It&#8217;s an uncomfortable and tenuous position to be in, like &#8220;on the fence,&#8221; or &#8220;almost there.&#8221;&nbsp; I don&#8217;t like it!&nbsp; But I must put my faith&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":171,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10,17,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-happiness","category-lifestyles","category-religion","category-spirituality"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>God on the Verge - Dr. Norris J. 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