What is Your One Stable Thing in Life?

If you lost everything, what would be the one thing you have to hang on to?

If you lost your wealth, your home, your cars, your family, your family photo albums, your computers and hobby activities, your friends, your health, your way of life, your career, your position in the community you live... would you still believe in God? Would you still live for Him? Would you still say, I love the Lord, He is my Rock and my Salvation? Would you still say, the Lord is good? Would you say it doesn’t matter what happens to me, I will believe and I will never let go of the hand that holds mine?

What if you lost your dreams and even your will to dream? What if you lost any purpose in your life? What would you be holding on to? What would your life boil down to? Would you curse God? Would you say you believed for nothing? Would you stop following Him?

Job lost everything in the way described above.

Would you be able to say, like Job, “Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.” (Job 1:20-21/ESV)

Job 19:15-20 (NIV)

My guests and my female servants count me a foreigner; they look on me as on a stranger… My breath is offensive to my wife; I am loathsome to my own family. All my intimate friends detest me; those I love have turned against me. I am nothing but skin and bones; I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.

He went through the deepest of despairs but he never let go of His understanding that God was where the meaning of his life began and ended.

Job 19:23-25 (NIV)

“Oh, that my words were recorded, that they were written on a scroll, that they were inscribed with an iron tool on lead, or engraved in rock forever! I know that my redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand on the earth.

Little did Job know his words would be recorded and written on a scroll. Little did he know that centuries later, millions of people would be helped because of his steadfast belief in God.

King Solomon had been brought up to live for God and he had pursued God as a young king. But as he journeyed through life he lost his way and he lived for himself, experiencing everything he possibly could for his own pleasure. Yet, at the end of his life, he had lost the pleasure of living because he had used it wrongly, and he came back to the knowledge that the only thing that mattered was knowing God.

Solomon stated at the end of his life, “Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble come and the years approach when you will say, “I find no pleasure in them" (Ecclesiastes 12:1/NIV).

Do you understand, like Solomon, “All [that is done without God’s guidance] is vanity [futile, meaningless—a wisp of smoke, a vapor that vanishes, merely chasing the wind].” (Ecclesiastes 1:2/AMP).

Would you know, like Solomon at the end of his life, “When all has been heard, the end of the matter is: fear God [worship Him with awe-filled reverence, knowing that He is almighty God] and keep His commandments, for this applies to every person. For God will bring every act to judgment, every hidden and secret thing, whether it is good or evil.” (Ecclesiastes 12:13-14/AMP).

Do you believe Jesus’ words in John 6:63 (AMP)  

It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh conveys no benefit [it is of no account]. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and life [providing eternal life]. 

As a result of Jesus teaching in John 6:66 (AMP) “many of His disciples abandoned Him, and no longer walked with Him”.

If Jesus asked you whether you would abandon Him too, like He asked His 12 disciples, would you respond, like Peter, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You [alone] have the words of eternal life [you are our only hope]. We have believed and confidently trusted, and [even more] we have come to know [by personal observation and experience] that You are the Holy One of God [the Christ, the Son of the living God].” (John 6:68-69/ AMP).

What is your one stable thing in life?

It’s important to think about what your life is based on. Where does your purpose really lie? Does it lie in things or achievements? Do you know, sufficiently, that you’re living to know God and ultimately, to love Him?

If everything that you love was taken from you, would you still trust God? Would you know that He would still be loving you and that your loss would not mean His abandonment of you?

Our greatest wealth in life is to know we are being kept by Him, for Him, forever, and to love Him back.