Start Here: When The World’s Spinning Sideways

What can you do when the world’s spinning sorta sideways but come alongside just one person and find ways to steady them with love? 

“You always said something, Ann…” a friend mentioned this week.

“You always said, “It’s okay already.” 

“So in n the early morning hours, that’s what I did, as I lay in bed with my anxious mind running to and fro, I thought of what you used to say often: It’s okay already.”  

Because God is with us, won’t forsake us, is always for us, and cannot fail us – it’s ok already.

And as the world spins sideways and headlines upend, she lay there in bed, and before her feet even hit the floor, she recounted the good news of reality that steadies everything: 

Because God is King of the cosmos and our very own Abba Father – it’s ok already.

Because Jesus rescues us, restores us, and resurrects us – it’s ok already.

Because the Spirit is our Counselor, Comforter, and always close — it’s ok already.

Because God is with us, won’t forsake us, is always for us, and cannot fail us – it’s ok already.

Because grace always meets us, and hope never leaves us, and Love always names us His own and beloved– it’s ok already.

Whatever’s happening already in the world – God Almighty is already working good so we are deeply steadied – so it’s okay already.

No matter how the news columns read, the world is supported by more than some large, stone columns – it’s supported by the rock-solid hand of Love Himself. 

And when I go to grab a coffee first thing in the morning, the book laying open by the pot of coffee beans reads exactly why it’s okay already: 

“When the earth totters, and all its inhabitants, it is I who keep steady its pillars” Psalm 75:3. 

Though the world totters, God steadies the pillars. 

Cosmic chaos doesn’t shake the One who’s the Upholder of the cosmos. The world’s structures may presently shake, but we have a God who’s a stabilizing presence. The visible may explode, but the invisible hand of God upholds. There may be  architects of war, and an axis of evil, but the outstretched arms of Jesus are the revolutionary axis of grace that turns the whole universe, and He is the architect of certain peace. 

No matter how the news columns read, the world is supported by more than some large, stone columns – it’s supported by the rock-solid hand of Love Himself. 

Whatever gives way, The Way gives us the steadiness of Himself. 

Whatever dissolves in this world, our heart refuses to melt in fear, because the heart of God is fused to our heart. 

The pillars of the earth are the Lord’s arms of Love. His arms are always underneath you, no matter what is overwhelming you. What God upholds won’t fall down.

Because that Lord’s hand holds earth’s pillars, your heart can rest in His Providence and His Presence. 

Regardless of the state of global security, because Jesus saves, we can have eternal security. And it’s not stable markets, or nations, that matter most, but the One who took on matter, entered our world through a stable, and gives Himself to give all generations and nations real and sure stability.

I grind the coffee beans, pour the milk, raise the cup, drink deeply … and I pick up that open book of Psalms and everything feels steadied… righted.

“Though the mountains fall into the heart of the sea… God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved” (Psalm 46).

“When the world totters – tilt toward Love. Tilt toward Love, the Person – Jesus, who is Love. What offsets a world that’s tottering, is to be one offering Love..

Whatever dissolves in this world, our heart refuses to melt in fear, because the heart of God is fused to our heart. 

And it’s okay already and this is all there is, and what always is: 

When the world totters – tilt toward Love. Tilt toward Love, the Person – Jesus, who is Love. 

And tilt toward love – love for the person in front of you and all the people all around you, tilt toward love, loving the people unlike you and the people who don’t like you.

When the world totters – tilt hard to offer Love to the one who doesn’t deserve it, and the one who desperately longs for it, be the one who is more of the Love the world needs, as you live your life in the steadying life and love of God.  Who makes everything okay already.   

What offsets a world that’s tottering, is to be one offering Love.

You aren’t alone. And Jesus is with us, within us, to cause us love like Him. 

God knows what it feels like to be where you are, where you have been — and He’s here to give us a new heart. 

God Himself knows how hard this broken planet is―He’s walked where you’ve walked. But out of those hard, dusty roads emerges a way into the exhilarating life you’ve longed to fully experience — that exudes His kind of Love. 

This is the truest story in the whole universe: God is the only One who has ever loved you to death and came to resurrect you into the fullest life you always hoped for.

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