There's going to be times in our following of Jesus Christ, we got to submit to people we don't want to, but we do it because we are following Jesus Christ.

See, the bible addresses our attitudes. And in 1 Peter chapter 2 and chapter 3 it addresses what I believe is a distinctly unique Christian attitude.

Wherever we are on the spiritual journey, am I going to do what God tells me to do? That's why it's pro active. The good life is pro active. It doesn't just happen because we go to church. It happens because we have commited ourselves to follow Jesus.

God in grace loves us and has provided a plan of salvation for us and if we in faith open up our hearts to God and receive His grace, we're saved, we're born again!

We need to live such good lives; such good lives that the very stuff that the pagans would try to accuse us of; that they've got nothing to say. Because you can't accuse someone who's being a servant.

1 Peter 2:11-12. It's a very simple message. And maybe that's why there's so much I want to say about it. Because it's the simple things, the basic things that really are life transforming; that are defining about who we are and how we're to live in this world.

Paul said in Romans chapter 7, "Wretched man that I am, who will set me free from this body of death? I myself in my mind am serving the law of God, but with my flesh the law of sin." The mind is critical. Romans chapter 8 says, "But the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the spirit is life and peace."

The train diagram in the back of the little booklet called "The Four Spiritual Laws". The illustration is, you see a train running down the track, there's an engine, there's compartment cars and then there's a caboose. All the power is in the engine. You can't pull the train by the compartment car; you can't pull it by the caboose. Well if you think about the engine being fact and the compartment cars as faith and the caboose as feeling, the way we live our Christian life is we put our faith in the facts and then God produces the feelings.

That's the point; wherever I am, I better look to God's word to see what it says about my finances because it says something that will set me free and enable me to bless God and others!

So this is a very appropriate question; whatever season of life or life experience we find ourselves in; where do we turn when we hit a financial crisis? And the good news is that God's word has answers. As it does for all the challenges that we have in life.