Faith and Stability

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Encouragement for your daily walk with God

Christ followers are just ordinary people, right? Therefore, it should not come as a surprise if you have ever felt uneasy, unsettled or unstable. Who hasn’t? The greater question is, how do you deal with those feelings? 

This is what George Muller wrote in His diary on May 9, 1841:

"Now, I saw that the most important thing I had to do was to give myself to the reading of the Word of God, and to meditation on it, that thus my heart might be comforted, encouraged, warned, reproved, instructed…by breakfast time, with rare exceptions, I am in a peaceful if not happy state of heart."

Muller got his stability from daily meditation of the Word of God. Stay with me just a moment because this gets really interesting. The Hebrew word for faith is emunah. Interestingly, Isaiah used the same Hebrew word when he wrote, “And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, and strength of salvation: the fear of the LORD is his treasure.” [Isaiah 33:6] 

Faith and stability are linked; they go hand-in-hand together. How does a Christ follower become more stable and settled in uncertain times? By gaining faith. And how does he get that faith? Paul said it best, "Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God." [Romans 10:17]

The more we get into the Word of God, the more stable our walk. Faith and stability await those who spend time in His word. 

Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful; But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and in His law he meditates day and night. He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also shall not wither; and whatever he does shall prosper. Psalm 1:1-3 NKJV