If any of you know the story of Alice in Wonderland, you understand it is an odd tale of adventure and misadventure for Alice. Falling down a rabbit’s hole is only the beginning of growing and shrinking, queens and kings and a cat with a wild smile. Sometimes, I feel like I have fallen down the rabbit hole.
Falling. Falling. Getting hit by book shelves, piano books, lamps. Things I can’t control. A fall I wasn’t expecting. Landing in a world I don’t know. Chasing things that don’t make sense.
And…
I can’t find my way home.
This story of Alice and the rabbit hole can be applied to different parts of my life’s journey including my financial journey. My money story.
You see the rabbit. The shiny object. The house you must have. The car within reach. You lean in to grab hold and find yourself looking down a black hole. The ground gives way underneath your hands. What you thought could hold you, forsakes you. And you fall.
You are in trouble. Financial trouble. You have lost a job. Your savings are dwindling. Your husband is sick. You have consolidated your debt and mortgage more than twice. You can’t do it again.
You are falling and you don’t know what to do. It seems hopeless. You feel helpless.
But unlike Alice, who had no one to lead her, you are not alone. You can find the help you need. There is One within reach.
A father comes to Jesus in the book of Mark, seeking deliverance for his son with a mute spirit. Some of us can relate. We are either like the father, or the son. As the father, we yearn to help those we love. As the son, we are mute. In our story, it is our financial situation that is doing the damage.
The disciples of Jesus are unable to help. Jesus throws up his hands. “O faithless generation, how long shall I be with you?” But He doesn’t stop there. In compassion, he meets the father and the son, speaking truth.
“If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes….Deaf and dumb spirit, I command you, come out of him and enter him no more!”
The father believes, crying out for help to believe more. The son is delivered. Compassion and healing have won the day. Hope is restored.
But what about you? Do I hear your skepticism? Your unbelief? That it could happen in the Bible but it couldn’t happen to you?
Can you believe he cares enough about Alice, to reach down through the dark abyss and pull her back up to the place where He has made plans for her from the foundation of the earth?
I am telling you, He cares enough. He is strong enough. He is wise enough to lead you to a better place. A place where He is already standing.
How do I know?
We have been where you are. And He has pulled us out. He continues to pull us out of all kinds of trouble.
Proverbs 24:16 says”for though the righteous fall seven times, they rise again…” (NIV)
So rise again.
Discover what is stealing your faith and making you “deaf and dumb” to the truth of God and rise again. Let Him pick you up out of the hole. And follow Him.
“Therefore strengthen the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees, and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed. (Hebrews 13:12,13 NKJV)
So come on Alice. Lift up your hand. He knows the way home.
Rebecca van Noppen is a teacher, home educator, writer, and More Than Enough blogger, who happens to be married to a financial coach. A lover of Jesus, she is on a journey of surrender, kindness, and generosity.
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