Here in the U.S. millions of Americans are expected to receive “stimulus checks”. Some folks received their checks nearly a week ago.

A stimulus check is a check sent to a taxpayer by the U.S. government. Stimulus checks are intended to stimulate the economy by providing consumers with some spending money. When taxpayers spend this money, it will boost consumption and drive revenues at retailers and manufacturers and, thus, spur the economy.

The U.S. took tremendous financial hits with businesses, in the markets, restaurants, and many other things to cripple the economy during this Covid 19 pandemic. Some owners sadly admitting, their business’s will never recover. While I hope that isn’t true, so much is unpredictable now.

How much will this stimulus help the economy? How much will it help people over the long haul? Don’t get me wrong, it’s a helpful gesture by our government anyway you look at it. Here’s my point.

Things are still shaking, we are not out of the woods yet. While many are eager to reopen the country and get the economy resuscitated, things are still dire from a coronavirus and economic standpoint. There are those that have strong opinions about what should be done. There are political positions on it, healthcare positions on it, business and economy pundits on it. While there can be serious hypothesis and healthy conversations volleying back and forth, and afterwards are no more closer to solutions.

I’m suggesting, we listen for God. Sounds religious huh?

I’m not speaking from a religious perspective but from God as a Creator. Yes, God the creator of heaven and earth, God the creator of you and I. God, the originator of all things. God, the One who knows where COVID-19 actually came from and the complete properties it’s made of AND the cure. God the One who knows what tomorrow holds, and the day we will close our eyes for the last time.

Until we listen to, and inquire from the One who knows all things past, present, and future, we are “straining at gnats.” (Matthew 23:24) We are trying to cover cancer with a band-aid. But we must come humble enough, open enough, less skeptical enough…and trusting enough.

The kind of stimulus we need, is one that doesn’t spend, but one that replenishes our hearts with resilience and gives us true perspective and hope. A divine stimulus. A talk with God to get answers we don’t have for a future we can’t see.

anablepsis.