Movers and Shakers

A back hoe and a bulldozer are making mincemeat of our front yard--a good thing. It's been full of piles of dirt (alternating with mud) for weeks. The guys running the two big earth movers make the house shake a bit when they get close enough. When God created the world he moved the water to make way for earth. "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear," was how He spoke earth into existence (Genesis 1:8). The author of Hebrews reminds us that the Lord promises, "Once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heavens" (Haggai 2: 6 & Hebrews 12:27). "Why?" "So that what cannot be shaken may remain," (Hebrews 12:27). Christ alone gives unshakable faith. "For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith--and this not from yourselves, it [the faith] is the gift of God" (Ephesians 2:8).