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Woe to you who seek stability, for you would trade joy and fulfillment for control and an ever fleeting sense of security.

We’ve turned God into security. That’s what we seek. 

We’ve traded shalom for avoidance.

We’ve traded joy for selective isolation.

You can plug up your ears and not listen to this, but it doesn’t make it any less true.

Please, please, please don’t get to the end of your life and realize that you’ve fought for comfort, control, and boredom. 

Jesus came preaching the Kingdom of God. He came offering participation in a counter-cultural society/community/people that is full of risk, hardship, love, sacrifice, joy, hope, and peace.

Avoiding conflict does not equal peace.

Avoiding hardship does not make you happy.

Avoiding risk does not make you secure. 

I hate being honest with myself, but honesty would teach me that there is no such thing as control. The more I experience and the more I see going on around the world, I realize that control is a myth. Stability is a death trap. It appears to be good, but it’s actually a lack of growth. 

We’d trade our souls for control, wouldn’t we? We’d trade our souls to be God.

One of the beautiful things the Kingdom of God does is draw us into the entire family of Humanity. And what we realize is that we may have found some measure of personal peace or satisfaction, but that our God-created and loved brothers & sisters around the world are far from it. 

The Kingdom of God calls us to care. 

It calls us to sacrifice our (fake) stability to share everything with our fellow humans.

Jesus calls us to enter the Kingdom of God. It’s near. It’s near and you can step into it. It’s near and it’s breaking through.

It’s challenging you to throw the myth of stability on the altar and walk away. And step into the Kingdom of God.