Isaiah 33:6
. . . and he will be the stability of your times,
abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge;
the fear of the LORD is Zion’s treasure.
It is fair to say we live in unstable times. As has every generation before us. Since the fall of mankind, there has never been stability; every empire, every nation, every era has been marked by varying levels of chaos brought about by sin. And yet we continue to yearn for stability, to fight for it, and often (sadly) to put our hopes in the wrong source of it.
Yet we have a source of stability. We have the source of stability–Christ himself. He is our internal stability, giving us every reason for hope and calm and gentleness in a bleak, angry world of upheaval. He is our communal source of stability as our means of loving one another and finding deep, meaningful relationships. And he will one day be our societal source of stability when he returns and makes all things new.
We don’t need to grasp about, hoping to find stability in some political party or societal trend. We don’t need to fear what will happen in the coming months or years. Christ is our stability and our salvation, so we can live with calm, kind hope.
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