The lack of understanding and interest in managing financial risks has led to the collapse of the world's financial system and many personal bankrupcies. Why is it that our nature wishes to ignore risks? Not sure - but the answer may be found in the confidence we have to control our own destiny. The illusion we can make life work on our own is at the heart of the human condition so we make sense of the future through lenses that discount or ignore risks.
The big risk question is "in what should we place our faith?" While the natural view is aligned with the notion of "the power of positive thinking." That is, if we are sincere and believe enough in something, then that something will happen. Our "flesh" wishes to think the risk is in our power to believe strongly enough, BUT just maybe our risk is in the validity of what we believe, the object or target of our faith.
Wouldn't it make more sense to believe that God is who He says He is and has done for us what He says He has than to trust that we can control our circumstances to meet our needs. Where does our risk really lay?
Think about it!!!
random musings from the heart of a CRAZY old man (dedicated to those who inspire me)
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