There are shakings all around us and even in our own personal life, shakings are taking place.
My advise to you friends would simply be this:
Trust God, expect the "unexpected". Think on this carefully we are clearly at the end of the ages, so the unexpected will happen. Things seen like never before. God knew about it because it was all spoken of in his word before it begun to unfold.
He chose to birth you for such a time as this and equipped you well when he created you. You gave you a characteristic called steadfastness and also rooted you and grounded you well in his love.
Those who serve Christ have also been well prepared through life experiences. God moved us from strength to strength through those trials and for those who lost themselves in him - he moved us from glory to glory. We now begin to understand the depth of the preparedness from all the hardship we walked through. We begin to understand that like the eagle we needed the opposing winds to get to the next level in God.
If you're not in position now because your focus has been on all surrounding us or on all you've been going through, it's not too late to refocus.
I pray today that God would give us "blinkers" of faith to cover our eyes, so that we only see life and others from his perspective. The perspective of eternity - it's all working for our good and his glory.
May he give us the daily portion of grace and strength. May he cause us to rest and abide in him. May he keep us as only he can keep us.
Amen
We life this life of faith for this dispensation of the end of the ages that we live in.
2 Corinthians 4:7 - 18 AMP
7 But we have this precious treasure [the good news about salvation] in [unworthy] earthen vessels [of human frailty], so that the grandeur and surpassing greatness of the power will be [shown to be] from God [His sufficiency] and not from ourselves. 8 We are pressured in every way [hedged in], but not crushed; perplexed [unsure of finding a way out], but not driven to despair; 9 hunted down and persecuted, but not deserted [to stand alone]; struck down, but never destroyed; 10 always carrying around in the body the dying of Jesus, so that the [resurrection] life of Jesus also may be shown in our body. 11 For we who live are constantly [experiencing the threat of] being handed over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the [resurrection] life of Jesus also may be evidenced in our mortal body [which is subject to death]. 12 So physical death is [actively] at work in us, but [spiritual] life [is actively at work] in you.
13 Yet we have the same spirit of faith as he had, who wrote in Scripture, “I believed, therefore I spoke.” We also believe, therefore we also speak, 14 knowing that He who raised the Lord Jesus will also raise us with Jesus and will present us [along] with you in His presence. 15 For all [these] things are for your sake, so that as [God’s remarkable, undeserved] grace reaches to more and more people it may increase thanksgiving, to the glory of [our great] God.
16 Therefore we do not become discouraged [spiritless, disappointed, or afraid]. Though our outer self is [progressively] wasting away, yet our inner self is being [progressively] renewed day by day. 17 For our momentary, light distress [this passing trouble] is producing for us an eternal weight of glory [a fullness] beyond all measure [surpassing all comparisons, a transcendent splendor and an endless blessedness]! 18 So we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are unseen; for the things which are visible are temporal [just brief and fleeting], but the things which are invisible are everlasting and imperishable.
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