I need some stability!

How many times have to heard people say “I just need some stability in my life”.

Spurgeon said, “Perfect stability ceased from the world when Adam fell”.

When Adam and Eve were in the garden they enjoyed stability “TO THE MAX” because God created it that way. It was man that messed the whole thing up – as so often we tend to do. James 1:17 says that good and perfect things like stability come from God “who does not change like shifting shadows” or “with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning”.

Adam and Eve enjoyed stability while they were obedient to God’s will. Things started to become instable when they broke God’s commandment. When Adam and Eve at the fruit their world was shaken – things we’re messed up and they began to experience the much dreaded “instability”

Stability of mind is one of the most important aspects of human life. Personally, I don’t handle instability very well. I like an environment that is stable – home and work.

• I’ve been in the same job for over six (6) years (that’s a long time these days)
• Attended the same church for 23 years
• Played the same instrument for 26 years
• Followed the same footy team for 23 years (carn’ the Raiders); and
• I have been married to the same woman for almost eight years…..eight blessed years at that - thankyou Jesus!

I look up to people that are stable, being firm and consistent. I look up to them because they are firm and consistent. I admire people who stand for something.

Genesis 49:4
[4] Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.

The same is with the spiritual. Instability in our spiritual walk is not desired. If we are going to excel spiritually we must develop a walk of stability and consistency. The Bible says that if you are “unstable as water, thou shalt not excel”.

Many of us have strayed from the path and could be called “unstable as water”.

• One day we are on the mountain viewing the world with the eye of faith. Another day we are in the valley, the dungeon of despair with no hope.
• One day at the banqueting table, the next day we are saying “if only I knew were I could find Him”.
• One day our cry is “I will not let you go until you bless me”, the next day we give up!

In order to have stability in our Christian walk, we must be “rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving”. (Colossians 2:7)

When we hold on to the promises of God, we are depending on Him for our strength and stability in the face of the storms of life (and be sure the storms will come). But, just like a tree whose roots allow it to weather any storm – we must be rooted in Christ!