When one is down to nothing IS God up to something

[Jack Shephard]

I ask this cause I have friends and family--even myself from time to time--that ask this to themselves. They are going through hell-on-earth and trying to get a leg up or even a foot up at times and things don't seem to turn. I have heard sermons preached about "When you are down to nothing God is up to something" a lot of times. My question is this; is this the fact? When you are at the end of your rope is God there or just a loop to hang ones self? Do you know what I mean?

With all the bad things happening in the US with the economy and having too much month at the end of the money type thing it makes me wonder how bad will it get. There are 1 income families like mine that it is tough to make it, but we press on. We are tithe payers and still have problems from time to time. Others I know are in worse shape. I know hundereds of my friends that have made good choices in the past and had money all to have nothing now and losing their homes. I believe God has a plan in all this, but do you think that when we are down to nothing that God is up to something or is the ball in our court to go do something better? We have the power to obtain wealth but what expenses to we give up for wealth? Is God up to something in ones life when he or she is down to nothing? What say ye?