Are you unhappy in your job?
Perhaps you are looking for work.
Well the US August job figures have apparently come as a little surprise against the expectations of economists who were expecting 70,000 new jobs.
US employment figures show the country has not added any new jobs in August, prompting fears the world’s largest economy is grinding to a halt.
The Dow Jones industrial average, based on the news dropped 2.2 per cent at the close of trade.
It just seems as if there is no end to the bad news but what if we look at things differently.
How would we feel if the report was as follows.
Today economic figures revealed the good news that employment figures have remained steady with no jobs lost during the month of August. Admittedly the expectation of an increase in jobs was not realized and the Dow Jones was down 2.2% on the day but across the week only about 150 points were lost.
How we look at things does have a bearing on how we cope but when times are tough, or something we highly value receives a hit, then we may well struggle.
Paul, that great old time Christian was often in a tight spot and he once said
Philippians 3:7 But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. 8 What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ
This great man had a set of values which recognized that things of time pale into insignificance when measured in the long haul.
Why even what happened yesterday on the Dow Jones, when measured over a life time is not even a blip as the graph below reveals.
Let me ask this. How in reality does what is now important to you measure when one considers the broader scheme of things?
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