Removal of All Things

There comes a point in time in one’s life when you realize all that you had looked to, whether people or things or careers or plans, do not meet the demand for your greatest needs. People fail, things deteriorate, careers change, and plans can be brought to nothing. What does one have left? What remains?

There is a deep hunger for love, significance, purpose, and belonging. This is a temporary life, a shadow of the spiritual reality of eternity. We live in a world ruled by the kingdom of darkness in its fallen state. To draw one’s own meaning from the things of this world is meaningless, empty. You can see the desperate cry for these unmet needs in the younger generations especially as they are forming their worldview and their own identity from their surroundings and their life experiences. There is true danger in this method.

The shadows of living in this present darkness will fall away and finally be removed. The time is coming. True love, purpose, meaning, and belonging can only be found in a personal relationship with one’s Creator. The Creator of each truly significant life, the ruler of the Kingdom of light, and the coming King. I don’t know about you, but I’m anchored in the reality of a coming Kingdom ruled by the King of Kings who takes special interest in each one of his created human beings. I’m living for this eternal reality today and look forward to its establishment in the future!

“At that time his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, “Once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens.” The words “once more” indicate the removing of what can be shaken—that is, created things—so that what cannot be shaken may remain.

Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, for our “God is a consuming fire.”

—Hebrews 12:26-28