Stability

Every stable thing in your life will fail.  Are you prepared for your parents to die, or worse, to reject you?  Are you prepared for your business or department to which you’ve dedicated your career to careen off without you, or worse, to not need you?  Are you prepared for your children to leave your home and not look back?  Are you prepared for your church family to not be there when you need them, for the “paid Christians” (pastors/staff) to not help?  Are you prepared for your physical body to turn on you, for you mind to be forgetful and your strength to diminish?  Are you prepared for the guiding morals in the society you have lived your life to be rejected and for you to be rejected for supporting them?

Are you prepared to stand when the whole world and all that you know of it, love in it, and depend upon fails?

Are you enough when that happens or will you need someone you cannot see, that is unexplainable, and that promises to never forsake you and be with you forever? 

Sooner or later all of us will be on our deathbed and there is nothing in this world that we know that can help us.  Our parents, job, children, church, body, mind, or morals can do nothing for us at that moment, but watch.  This, unfortunately, is if we are blessed.  Too many people suffer the loss of seemingly everything while they are still very much alive.

There is only one answer and there has only ever been one answer.  That answer is the Creator who gave me life in the beginning.  The same Who brought Himself to deliver me from myself.   The One that stands with me and remains with me even when I reject Him.  The Eternal that walks with me through the transition into eternity. 

He alone is the only stability my life will ever know.  He is the only stability this world will ever know.  There simply is nothing else.  Men have tried for thousands of years to find something or someone somewhere or anywhere, yet He remains and always will in the face of man’s continued vanity.

“No man can lay a foundation other than the one which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.” 1 Cor 3:11

Look around.  Every person I see will have their whole world crumble around them at some time.  What can I do to help them?  There is only one thing I can do and that is to show them and tell them as closely as possible as I can, being a sinner, how God would love them.  Everyone needs for me to be willing to stand in such a way. 

We all have a purpose.  The foundation of that purpose is to know that the only reality of life is the presence of God and He alone will remain with us through our existence if we accept that reality.  Then, we need to see everyone in that reality.  This alone will change every relationship and interaction with people you have.