Earthquake!!!

Family Fun on Lookout Mountain, 1997
(97 earthquakes were recorded around the world that year)

"For the mountains may be removed and the hills may shake, but My lovingkindness will not be removed from you, and My covenant of peace will not be shaken," says the Lord who has compassion on you. (Isa. 54:10)

        As a little girl, I lived atop Lookout Mountain in the northeastern corner of Alabama. One day, when my family was in the playroom of our house, a laundry basket on the floor strangely started moving and the wagon-wheel light above us began to gently swing back and forth, back and forth. We later learned that a very mild earthquake had rumbled through our town.
        Violent political, economic, and social earthquakes around the globe seem to be shaking this old world apart at the seams. The Bible, however, gives high hopes and good news to people in relationship with Father God through faith in Jesus Christ!
        We are receiving a Kingdom that is unshakable (Heb. 12:28) - a better country, that is, a heavenly one (Heb. 11:16). We are citizens of heaven where the Lord Jesus Christ lives, and we are eagerly waiting for Him to return as our Savior (Phil. 3:20)!
         Therefore, dear friends, (the Lord urges) us as temporary residents and foreigners (of this earth) to keep away from worldly desires that wage war against our very souls and to be careful to live properly among our unbelieving neighbors (1 Peter 2:11-12a).
         In these shaky, unstable days, let us cast our burdens upon the Lord. For He will sustain us and will never allow the righteous to be shaken (Psalm 55:22)!
         Brothers and sisters, stand firm, therefore, in your faith in Jesus!