True Security

In these final days of this Shemitah year, as we approach mid-September, I can feel God's creation silently vibrating,  as if we're in the eye of the hurricane, so to speak (or "as it was in the days of Noah" [Matt 24:36-38] ...with everyone going about their business not knowing what was to come.). I don't know what is going to happen in this summation of the year of four blood moons, the reappearance of the Star of Bethlehem, and this year of Shemitah/Jubilee. But this I do know:  we better know where our true security lies and hang tightly to His hand, hidden and resting in Him....and seeking to draw everyone we know and love into His Sheepfold. It is out-of-fashion to remind one another of the awe and reverence due to God, but we must not remake Him in our own image or ever forget that it is only by His infinite Love and Grace, expressed through Jesus, that we are rescued from what, otherwise, the Enemy has in store for us.  Anyone reading this blog probably knows this profound truth. But all of us can become entangled in our day-to-day lives and lose a sense of the urgency of the times. Don't let your courage falter in reaching out to those who, as far as you know, do not see, or who have not yet accepted, His outstretched hand. Let no one be lost whose hand we could have taken and helped lead to His feet.

Hebrews 12:25-29:
So see to it that you do not reject Him or refuse to listen to and heed Him Who is speaking.......Then [at Mt. Sinai] His voice shook the earth, but now He has given us a promise:  Yet once more I will shake and make tremble not only the earth but also the [starry] heavens. Now this expression, Yet once more, indicates the final removal and transformation of all [that can be] shaken--that is, of that which has been created-- in order that what cannot be shaken may remain and continue. Let us therefore, receiving a kingdom that is firm and stable and cannot be shaken, offer to God pleasing service and acceptable worship, with modesty and pious care and godly fear* and awe, for our God is a consuming fire." 

*"affectionate reverence"