Part 3 - Crisis

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia on the net they describe a Crisis as follows:

A crisis (plural: crises) may occur on a personal or societal level. It may be a traumatic or stressful change in a person's life, or an unstable and dangerous social situation, in political, social, economic, military
affairs, or a large-scale environmental event, especially one involving an impending abrupt change. More loosely, it is a term meaning 'a testing time' or 'emergency event'.

I think we at times see a crisis very similar to a burnout but in fact it is not the same even though they might seem closely related.

Most times a crisis comes our way due to us ourselves making a wrong decision – we know something might work out wrong but we decide to do it anyway, only to discover later we made the wrong decision and then we try to find a way out and when we are unable to thats when we end up being in a crisis.

I must admit that in choosing "crisis" to write about is more difficult than i thought - but this is what i can find in the Bible about what causes a crisis ?

You can cause your own crisis when you are living in sin – Proverbs 27:12 – A prudent person foresees the danger ahead and takes precautions. The simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences. This verse for me is telling us to think about things before just going ahead and doing it.

I also know that we can face a crisis from things totally out of our control – think back to when the "TSUNAMI" made world news headlines, im sure if i was faced with that i would surely be faced with a major crisis as one would just feel so helpless and one would have no idea of what to do or how to handle what just happened.

Did you know the Bible actually tells us that there are blessings that come out of a crisis – i try to study my Bible in depth to get maximum information out of it and was actually surprised when looking up this topic within the Bible, but here are some blessings believe it or not:

1. A crisis helps us to see God more clearly (oh yes that is a blessing for sure)
   
2. A crisis helps us indentify with Christ's sufferings for us – 1 Peter 4:13 – These trials will make you partners with Christ in his suffering.
   

I have looked for different answers and books to find a different answers on how to get out of a crisis but i only find one answer = TURN TO THE LORD. (See if you find an alternative answer – if you do please let me know and leave a comment)

Jonah 2:7
– When i had lost all hope, I turned my thoughts once more to the LORD.

Psalm 130:1 – from the depths of despair, O LORD, I call for your help.

My NIV study Bible states this – "our weaknesses are times for his strength; our crisis are his opportunities".

I just want to close off this post with a promise from God:

Psalm 46:1 – GOD IS OUR REFUGE AND STRENGTH, ALWAYS READY TO HELP IN TIMES OF TROUBLE.