A business suffers when a virus causes its computer system to crash, a major city comes to a standstill because of a glitch somewhere in the energy grid, a premier quarterback in the NFL is sidelined with a broken leg… We live in a shakable world.
The immediate question when the lights go out is: “When will this be over?” The deeper question is: “If my secure job suddenly ends, if my good health turns bad, if my best friend betrays me… if the whole world falls apart around me, will I stand?”
Our hope for standing is not in a better power grid or a new drug or a stronger economy. Our hope is in an unshakable King who is giving us an unshakable Kingdom. When man’s criticism and the devil’s attacks came against Him, Jesus remembered who He was and stood in the Word of His Father. “I am in the Father and the Father is in me. The words I say to you are not just my own. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work.”
If I am going to stand in a shaky world, I too, must remember who I am… realizing it is far more important to believe what the Holy Spirit says than to believe what I sometimes feel. “For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.”
George Keith wrote true words in a timeless hymn: How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord, Is laid for your faith in His excellent word! What more can He say than to you He has said, You who unto Jesus for refuge have fled? “Fear not, I am with thee, O be not dismayed; I, I am thy God and will still give thee aid; I’ll strengthen thee, help thee, and cause thee to stand, Upheld by My gracious omnipotent hand.” “The soul that on Jesus hath leaned for repose, I will not, I will not desert to His foes; That soul tho’ all hell should endeavor to shake, I’ll never, no never, no never forsake.”
“Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire.” Hebrews 12:28-29