Very quick thought. I implore you, don’t embrace the flighty, good-intentioned but deadly-wrong idea that God changes or shifts based on our situations, seasons or circumstances. That may sound like an ear-tickling, emotion-massaging comfort, but it is a deception that can be extremely costly, namely if we embrace it in the midst of tribulation.
Right now, I don’t need a God who falls apart when I’m going through stuff. Sadly though, one too many folks are “teaching” and writing “Christian” self-help books about this overly emphatic Jesus Who is so “in touch” with our junk that He too collapses under the pressure. After all, we need to make Him relatable right? That’s what people need…right? No.
Does He emotionally relate to us in our distress? Absolutely. However, rejoice in the Truth that He is the unchanging, unshakeable God and that He desires to release an unshakeable kingdom into an all too shakeable planet Earth. Stand on His unshakeability in the midst of your shaking and instead of looking for a “Savior” who simply allows us to savor our circumstance, let’s seek the One Who pulls us out of the ash-heap, sets our feet upon a Rock, and collides His unshakeable world and will with ours producing the miraculous.
Rejoice in His unshakeableness!
Take comfort in the following Truths as I do,
“For I am the LORD, I do not change…” (Malachi 3:6, NKJV)
“Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.” (James 1:17, NIV)
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Larry, awesome post! I have a thing about foundations. I need to know that where I am standing is not going to move. When I was at my high school prom, it was on the second floor of the Broward Convention Center. The people who were "dancing" (jumping up and down) were causing the floor to noticeably move up and down by an inch or so. I immediately left the room and did not return. Now, I'm a pretty tall guy, and don't have very many phobias, except maybe big spiders and poisonous snakes. I have never lost it for anything, but I think if I were to experience an earth moving quake, I just might loose it... I would know what to do, but my nerves would be completely shot.
ReplyDeleteI NEED a God who is unmovable. I want a God who can take bunker buster bombs and nothing even registers on the Richter scale.