Reading from Oswald Chamber’s “The Place of Help” today:

Suppose you talk about depending on God and how wonderful it is, and then others see that in your own immediate concerns you do not depend on Him a bit, but on your own wits, it makes them say, “Well, after all, it’s a big pretense, there is no Almighty Christ to depend on anywhere, it is all mere sentiment.”

It is important to remember that we Christians should walk the talk.  If God can do what we say he can do, we should act like it and all the more when life takes some sudden and unexpected turn.