Whoe Lotta Shakin' Going on

I don't know about where you live, but where  I live and in my life there's a whole lotta shakin' going on!  Heres what my friend Ron Brakin says about it at 'How shaky R U today?

I can’t think of anyone I know who is not “going through it.” Shaky job. Shaky marriage. Shaky kids. Shaky finances. Shaky health. Shaky spirit.

There’s just a whole lot of shakin’ goin’ on. Everywhere on the face of the earth.

And we are surprised.

Even after God warned us in Hebrews 12 that, “Once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens.” The words ‘once more’ indicate the removing of what can be shaken—that is, created things—so that what cannot be shaken may remain. Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, for our ‘God is a consuming fire.’”....

.....Get it? Everything’s being shaken. But these are also wonderful words of comfort and encouragement. He’s assuring us that we don’t need to be shaky, even when everything around us is being tossed like a salad.

 lMuch more at the link.  Good job, Ron!

Encouragement

"The faintest whisper of support and encouragement uttered by a Christian in the ears of his fellow believer is heard in heaven."

            —John J. Murray

Hat Tip:  Challies Dot Com:

Meet Lego Job

Meet Lego Job; can you feel his pain?

Somewhere around you today there may be a modern day Job. Will you be like Job's wife and Job's three "friends"? Or will you see past and though his situation and stand with him in his pain?

"The LORD gave, and the Lord has taken away; May the name of the LORD be praised." Job 1:21

Hat Tip: Theological Scribbles: Lego Job

Self Talk

Perhaps I need to talk to myself more often. At least, so said D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones in Spiritual Depression, pp. 20-21:

Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself? Take those thoughts that come to you the moment you wake up in the morning. You have not originated them but they are talking to you, they bring back the problems of yesterday, etc. Somebody is talking. Who is talking to you? Your self is talking to you. Now this man’s treatment [in Psalm 42] was this: instead of allowing this self to talk to him, he starts talking to himself. “Why art thou cast down, O my soul?” he asks. His soul had been depressing him, crushing him. So he stands up and says, “Self, listen for moment, I will speak to you.”

A good way to start would be to use the words of Psalm 42:

Why are you cast down, O my soul,
and why are you in turmoil within me?
Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,
my salvation and my God.

So - Hey self, listen up!

Hat Tip: Why You Need to Start Talking to Yourself More – Justin Taylor