What if it's falling together, not apart?
I want to talk to you about something that might be sitting quietly at the back of your mind right now.
That low-level sense that things aren’t quite as solid as they were. A job, a relationship, a season of faith that hasn’t gone the way you hoped. Maybe nothing dramatic - just a feeling that the ground has shifted a little.
I’ve been sitting with a verse from Hebrews 12 this week, and I think it might reframe everything.
The writer says that God shakes things - on purpose - so that what cannot be shaken may remain. Not to destroy. Not because he’s angry. But because he loves us too much to let us keep leaning on things that were never strong enough to hold us.
Three things stayed with me:
The shaking is purposeful, not punishing. God isn’t knocking down walls because he hates the building - he’s doing it because he can see what it could become.
Some things need to go. The false securities, the versions of ourselves built on other people’s approval - God, in his mercy, loosens our grip on them before they do us more harm.
What remains is unshakable. Your identity as a child of God. His love. His purposes for your life. These don’t move.
Julian of Norwich put it simply: “He said not thou shalt not be tempted... but he said, thou shalt not be overcome.”
That’s the word for today.
If you’d like to sit with this for five minutes, the full devotional is on YouTube - I’d love for you to join me there.
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Take care of yourself today. Rob
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