Finding Stability in an Unstable World

This title is the title for many sermons. It is appropriate because so many of us are feeling unstable. We no longer have the anchors we depended on for so long. It wasn't that long ago that most of us could depend on the news media for accurate and timely news. It hasn't been that long that we depended on our government officials to do the right thing. I can remember when the world went a lot slower and honored those who stuck with an organization. I can also still remember when you had a job for life.

Now we do struggle. There are no solid positions, at least I haven't found any. Everyone is being pushed into the gig economy where you contract out jobs and people. We have reached the point where machines can do all the mundane work. Even our money is transitory. One minute it is there and the next it is gone.

This is an unstable world. It is difficult to find stability when everything moves at lighting speed. You have stop but are not sure how. Finding stability in an unstable world is impossible without God. He is outside time and space. He is all-knowing and all-powerful.

We don't have to struggle once we realize that God is in control. He is our stable core and the answer to the "six blind men and the elephant" puzzle. Only God can bring all the perceptions together as a whole. I admit that I have been struggling with this puzzle for awhile now. I wondered how all the perceptions of one animal could be brought together.

It shouldn't surprise me that the "six blind men and elephant" puzzle stumped me. I was looking at it all wrong. I thought wrongly that because everyone perceived things differently that there could be no consensus. Solving this puzzle though is a key element to finding stability. Right now the world is unstable because no one is willing to attach themselves to the one stable element in the universe. That stable element is God. He is the answer to that puzzle.

With God in the picture things definitely become clear. The perceptions of men that design to lead people away from God have no power. It is only through God that we can find stability in an unstable world.

I know now that I need to rely more of God than on my own devices. Thank you, Lord for stability.