✝️ Destabilizing Your Faith ✝️

The question on the table is, what is it all about? It’s been a very stressful, long and chaotic work week, and as part of my unwinding, what I like to do, is just write and empty my thoughts on paper,l. And so tonight, as I sat at dinner, I asked myself, “What is it all about —this life we live?”

I’ve never minded the idea of aging or growing old. It has really never been an issue of my mind. As a matter of fact, I always viewed it as a blessing and a gift.

As a person raised in church, and as a young adult, who was always searching the scriptures for answers to life issues, what I came to understand and realize was the value of our life.

See, scriptures like Psalms 90:10 spoke to me when I read, “The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is there strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut.”

Then there is Ecclesiastes Chapter 3, the chapter that talks about there being a time to do something, and a time to not to do something. In verses 12 and 13, it says, “12-I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life. 13-And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labor, it is the gift of God.”

Another one of my favorite scriptures and one that really motivates me in my life to keep moving, to keep rising, to keep pushing, to keep believing, to keep hoping, to keep trusting, to keep crying, to keep caring, to keep loving, to keep trying, and most of all to keep a smile on my heart and on my face, is John 10:10. It’s the words of Jesus, himself spoke, and he says, “The thief cometh not, but for the steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.”

See, I’ve never liked bullies, and this verse right here, is a reminder that all spiritual warfare is Satan trying to bully God’s children to make them doubt God’s love, and then to induce fear that destabilizes our faith and trust and standing in Christ.

When I thought about that word “destabilize,” Webster says it means … to deliberately weaken, undermine, or upset the stability, power, or equilibrium of a government, economy, system, or structure. Let’s add the words “Christian/Believer in Jesus Christ” to that definition as well.

See, there are synonyms for that word destabilize, and they are • to undermine • to subvert • to weaken • to unsettle • to disrupt • to unbalance • to diminish … that’s AI’s definition found on Google.

But then I went to Webster (and this is not the Webster 1828, but a more modern version), and it defines it as 1) to make unstable, or 2) to cause something (such as a government—and again, I am going to add Christian/Believer in Jesus Christ) to be incapable of functioning or surviving.

The question that has to be answered personally, and the question on the table is, “what is this life all about?” It is asking ourselves if we will allow Satan to bully us to such a degree that we (His children who are called by his name) are destabilized in doing the work that God has called us to do, in the plan that he has set out for each of our lives.?

Can we talk about it? What is your position or thought on the matter?