Immovable

I can’t believe how fast time is moving. No doubt the older you get, the faster it goes. It’s not just time that’s flying. The world seems like it’s sliding down a mountainside. At first, it was just a bit of instability but as it starts to slip the movement accelerates.  What at first seems stoppable, soon becomes inevitable.

I don’t think I’m a prude. Maybe things are worse because it’s the “political” season. Things are said that are obviously not true, but they are said often enough to become accepted as truth. Burning and looting are acceptable means of “expression.” 

A candidate for president gave an interview to a “singer” whose claim to fame is a song so disgusting as to be unspeakable in “polite” society.  We have a “right” to kill our unborn and our too old to be useful. The evidence of the slide is everywhere.

But this post isn’t about the slide. It’s about not getting dragged down by it. To avoid getting caught up in a slide means identifying and grabbing onto something that isn’t sliding. The forces behind the slide will do all they can to blind you to that something and, should you see it, cause you not to trust it.

The immovable is God. It’s His Word. In the midst of all that seems to be moving and changing and sliding. He stands. We stand by fixing our gaze, our hope and our grasp on Him. It is simply said, but so difficult in the execution.

We have to focus in a world of tantalizing distraction. We have to hang on to permanence in a world that worships the temporary, the latest thing, not the longest-lasting thing.

We must work when tired. It can’t be busy work or world work. It has to be His work. In doing that work, we will find that the slide is the illusion. The firm foundation is what is real, what is good and what is eternal.