Have you ever realized your prayers and your thoughts often focus on things that seem immovable in your life? You know these immovable objects in your life, like the bitterness you have towards those people who hurt you; or the fear you have of failure keeping you from moving on to the next thing in your life; perhaps it may even be the consequences of bad decisions in your past. Every time you think about these things or pray about these things, you get droopy hands and weak knees. Shoot, it may not even be these bad things that seem immovable in your path. I constantly get to a point in my prayers and thinking where the big fat immovable block is the destiny I choose and the circumstances and challenges these decisions bring to my life with very little ability to overcome them. Perhaps then, the immovable object in your life is your own ambition and dreams and a set of “what if’s” they may never become reality. This phrase, Yet once more, indicates the removal of things that are shakenthat is, things that have been madein order that the things that cannot be shaken may remain. Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire. – Hebrews 12:27-29 Sometimes our lives need to be shaken up so that the chaff of menial things of life fall away. Our problem is that we don’t like to be shaken. We don’t even like to be stirred. But if you really think about it, or if you ask your family, they’ll tell you that you just need a good shaking. In fact, those people closest to you will be the first to let you know that if your life was shaken up, you would drop things that are holding you back from the really important things you could be focused on in life. When we are shaken up, we receive a fresh perspective and our burdens are lightened. When we are shaken up, the only things that remain are the unshakable. God shakes up our lives, and there is no doubt about it. The problem with God shaking up our lives is that sometimes the method employed can be violent, stemming from traumatic events. Sometimes, it can just be heartache that can be just be a slap in the head. Sometimes, it can just be guilt or a deep seated pressing from the Holy Spirit. I mean, God can also use all three methods. The bottom line is that when God shakes up our lives His intentions in doing so is so that you can be free from things that weigh you down and have little lasting importance. This shaking up hurts a lot. It hurts tremendously and we usually don’t embrace it and we call God unfair while we experience it, but if you look it from God’s perspective, it was just so frustrating to look at our lives and not want to shake it up so that you snap out of it. His goal, after all, is for us to inherit the unshakable promises He always had for us. God did not sacrifice His only son on the cross so that we can come to a place in our lives we defile ourselves with these shakable distractions. Absolutely not. Jesus Christ paid the penalty of our past, present and future so that we can come to “Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering.” We are shaken, just like God shook up the course of human history by sending His son to live like a feeble human, so that we can become more perfect and see the new things that await for us when we inherit the unshakable. If we are being shaken by God this morning, pray that you may receive the inheritance of the unshakable. If your prayers and thoughts focus on what seem like immovable objects, ask God to shake them out of your life. We want to become perfect so that we can receive what God dreams of giving us– a kingdom that is unshakable.
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