Shakings

"Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe..." Heb 12:28 NIV

Stability does not seem to come easily to people in the world today. Maybe, it never has. There are always challenges. Just when we think that we are doing well and the world around us is making progress or at least running at a comfortable pace something happens to set us back. Our world is shaken and we are not quite as comfortable as we were the day before.

Today, many grieve while many others celebrate the shaking up of the Castro regime. Their world got a real shaking up when Fidel Castro came to power almost 60 years ago. Yesterday, the world of many Cubans was shaken once again with his death.

There were many who were shaken with the election of Donald Trump as our next president. There were many who were just as shaken when Barack Obama was elected. That is just the way it is. Not everything or everyone will fit into our personal dreams. But, somehow we must attempt to come together so that the effects of these shakings will not devastate the world as we know it nor decimate the people that inhabit this world. Sometimes it is not the shaking up that brings the damage; but, how we react to the shakings.

With time, comes change. Sometimes the change is dramatic and shakes human kind to its core. Sometimes the change is so slight and so slow that the shaking up that it causes is barely perceptible. The world has experienced much shaking up since it's beginning. No one can know for sure what tomorrow will bring.

But, this we can know: that we are heirs of a kingdom that cannot be shaken. All who believe that Jesus died that we might be reconciled to our Father in heaven are heirs of the Kingdom of God; the only kingdom that cannot be shaken.

Trust in the one who has prepared this unshakeable Kingdom for you. Trust Him with all your heart, and soul, and mind.

God's Peace - Pr. J