Don't Let It Shake You

 

I'm often led to do a motto or some sort of mantra for each year. 

I would call it my resolution, if I may. 

I ask God, what is His plan or will for me this year and I study, pray, fast, and act according to what He has given me. 

I normally don't discuss what He gives me, but I want to be of assistance to someone today and I want to do what He's asking me. 

Last year, I had the instructions to build. 

"Strengthen what remains"

Now, when you look at that, it may sound like a building that has already wear and tear and it's time to strengthen and fortify what is there, but no. 

It means that what I build ensures that it is strong and sturdy.

Last year was no different than my previous years when it comes to God instructing me. As soon as He give the instructions for last year, I begin to do so. 

It's not easy and these instructions often have me getting rebuked because of trying to do something my way or unlearning a few things I thought were good. 

Regardless, I built. 

Now, this year, I wouldn't give you my exact instructions, but I was told that what I have built will be tested. 

"Tried and True" 

I was skeptical about this because normally when God gives His Word, He doesn't slack on it. 

He gives you the grace to get through it, but He doesn't stop you from going through it. No matter how hard you tried to duck or hide. 

Believe me, I went back to Him to see if He was meaning something else, but He was clear as day.

And so said so done. 

What I have built is now being tried and in the midst of it all, I chant 

"Do not let it shake you"

I speak on myself and situations not to brag or gain sympathy, but for relations to show you who read this what we all go through. We all fall short. We all can be blessed. 

So yes, here I am going through, the winds and waves are crashing! But, I am standing here with sea water slapping my back and wind whipping my face saying, "I will not be shaken" 

Often times when we are going through hard times, it is so easy for us to give up this stance. Trust me, I know. 

The idea of better days and the past becomes a blur and in the midst of the now, you just want to give up. 

You just want to be like, you know what I'm done. 

In the midst of it, is where your faith is really tested. 

Because in the middle of it, that is where you're weakened. That is where you're at your most vulnerable. 

This is where the enemy seeks to get you to lose your faith in God. 

In the book of Job, the enemy sought to bring Job low enough because he knew that in that moment of lowness and weakness is when the chance of Job cursing God is higher.

The devil's goal wasn't to take away Job's family or richness. He didn't want to see what it would be like to take away Job's friends and fame. He didn't care about how Job's image would look when he took away his health and respect. 

The enemy's main agenda was to bring Job into a place where his faith was shaken. 

Where he would be so low and weak that he release his faith in Christ.

In the midst of the battle, in the midst of the fire, I keep chanting, "Lord, please don't let me be shaken" 

Because I realize and I know that Job realized this too and that yes losing everything was going to be a very hard pill to swallow, but losing faith in God was going to be something that would end us. 

 "Don't let it shake you" 

Yes, the pain is unbearable. 

It's dark. 

You can't move without hurting. 

Every memory is a searing hot pain that makes your heart ache. 

Yes, the doors are closing. 

Yes, the sickness is spreading. 

Yes, I know. I know!

Your mind seems to be blurring into darkness and you feel like one of these days, just one of these days, you don't know if you're going to make it back out alive. 

DON'T LET IT SHAKE YOU!

Don't let the circumstances cause the foundation you have built and are standing on to be shaken or crumble. 

Yes, you're at your lowest. 

And, I know the enemy. He's telling you it makes sense to give up. 

He's telling you that it makes sense to throw in the towel, but I am here to remind you that God has a way in the end. 

Job had no idea that God would come to talk to him and bless him double. 

He had no idea there was a bigger picture to it. 

But, there is!

There's a bigger picture to the hurt. 

There's a bigger picture to the betrayal. 

To the pain. 

Yes, it doesn't seem so, because we can only see what's in front of us, but remember we serve a God that is at the beginning and even at the end. He knows all things. 

He would get us to the points that we need to make it to. Our job in the middle of it all is to remain standing. 

To Not be shaken!

~TheRay