Shake Baby Shake
The Bible says everything that can be shaken will be shaken ...
And it is shaking. God is doing it.
I thought about a salt shaker. We are the salt, and God is the shaker. Why is God shaking us? There is a purpose in it. He wants to get our attention. He wants our attention to be on Him. He also wants to shake us out of the lies and sins of this world.
I know when I lost my pet dog that I felt shaken. My life changed. I felt lost. I needed to find a firm footing again, so I had to take a look at my life and reassess things. Was I too comfortable before? I don't know, but my life got shook up. After my loss, I lost my job, too. More shaking for me to endure. We will have these times in life. We should take these opportunities to get closer to God and to let Him shape our lives.
I'd say the world is in need of some salt and light, so where is the church in all this? It, too, is being shaken. We have seen scandals. The church needs to wake up. We need to take responsibility in how we have failed society. Because we were supposed to be the influence, but we were not. It is time to get out of the comfortable pews and use what God has given you to build His kingdom. Jesus is the firm, secure Rock we build our foundations on. Get to work because time is short.
God is shaking the United States of America and the nations of the world in our time. Our government is so corrupt, there is so much sin, the church is a hot mess, and our culture has been perverted, so it is desperately in need of a good shaking. God's hands is on it, so He is working out His will. He needs to get the attention of the church. The evildoers are on blast about what He is doing, as well. He wants to get their attention, too, because He does not want anyone to perish.
We are seeing weather events and natural disasters across the world. Large earthquakes are happening. Actual natural shakings. There are wars going on. Governments are crumbling. Islam is trying to take over the West. Pandemics. Inflation. Terrorism. God wants to change the world. He wants His church to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ to the world.
Nehemiah 5:13I also shook out the folds of my robe and said, “In this way may God shake out of their house and possessions anyone who does not keep this promise. So may such a person be shaken out and emptied!” At this the whole assembly said, “Amen,” and praised the Lord. And the people did as they had promised.
Job 9:6He shakes the earth from its place and makes its pillars tremble.
12 “Have you ever given orders to the morning,
or shown the dawn its place,
13 that it might take the earth by the edges
and shake the wicked out of it?
Psalm 15:5who lends money to the poor without interest; who does not accept a bribe against the innocent. Whoever does these things will never be shaken.
Psalm 16:8I keep my eyes always on the Lord. With him at my right hand, I will not be shaken.
Psalm 21:7For the king trusts in the Lord; through the unfailing love of the Most High he will not be shaken.
Psalm 55:22Cast your cares on the Lord and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous be shaken.
Psalm 60:2You have shaken the land and torn it open; mend its fractures, for it is quaking.
Psalm 62:2Truly he is my rock and my salvation; he is my fortress, I will never be shaken.
Psalm 82:5“The ‘gods’ know nothing, they understand nothing. They walk about in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken.
Psalm 99
The Lord reigns, let the nations tremble; he sits enthroned between the cherubim, let the earth shake.
Psalm 112:6Surely the righteous will never be shaken; they will be remembered forever.
Psalm 125
A song of ascents.
Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion, which cannot be shaken but endures forever.
Isaiah 2:19People will flee to caves in the rocks and to holes in the ground from the fearful presence of the Lord and the splendor of his majesty, when he rises to shake the earth.
Isaiah 13:13Therefore I will make the heavens tremble; and the earth will shake from its place at the wrath of the Lord Almighty, in the day of his burning anger.
Isaiah 54:10Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed,” says the Lord, who has compassion on you.
Haggai 2:6“This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘In a little while I will once more shake the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land.
Haggai 2:7I will shake all nations, and what is desired by all nations will come, and I will fill this house with glory,’ says the Lord Almighty.
Luke 6:48They are like a man building a house, who dug down deep and laid the foundation on rock. When a flood came, the torrent struck that house but could not shake it, because it was well built.
Acts 2:25David said about him: “‘I saw the Lord always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.
Luke 21:26People will faint from terror, apprehensive of what is coming on the world, for the heavenly bodies will be shaken.
Acts 4:31After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly.
Acts 16:26Suddenly there was such a violent earthquake that the foundations of the prison were shaken. At once all the prison doors flew open, and everyone’s chains came loose.
Hebrews 12:27The words “once more” indicate the removing of what can be shaken—that is, created things—so that what cannot be shaken may remain.
Hebrews 12:28Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe,
