twelve: mover/shaker

Given the recent earthquakes in Haiti and the unrest that has followed, some prayer requests were a given tonite...


and as I was thinking on strangers
half way across the world -
homeless...
hungry...
displaced...
God was paralleling this thought
with His character.
Sometimes He needs to give our lives a shake,
to traject us from our beds of ease and familiarity,
so that He can move...
in the bedrock of our thoughts,
in the hardness of our hearts,
in the darkness of our nights.
He shakes with purpose.
He moves with precision.
And in our displacement we see the shifting foundations that we were resting our hopes in,
and the immovable rock we need to be standing on.

Psalm 46
God is our refuge and strength,
always ready to help in times of trouble.
So we will not fear when earthquakes come
and the mountains crumble into the sea.
Let the oceans roar and foam.
Let the mountains tremble as the waters surge!

A river brings joy to the city of our God,
      
the sacred home of the Most High.

God dwells in that city; it cannot be destroyed.

From the very break of day, God will protect it.

The nations are in chaos,
and their kingdoms crumble!

God’s voice thunders,
and the earth melts!

The Lord of Heaven’s Armies is here among us;

the God of Israel is our fortress.


Come, see the glorious works of the Lord:
See how he brings destruction upon the world.

He causes wars to end throughout the earth.
He breaks the bow and snaps the spear;

he burns the shields with fire.
“Be still, and know that I am God!
I will be honored by every nation.
I will be honored throughout the world.”
The Lord of Heaven’s Armies is here among us;

the God of Israel is our fortress.