“That the things which cannot be shaken may remain” (Hebrews 12:25)  

Saints possess many things which can be shaken, and it isn’t wise for them to hold onto them tightly. Sometimes you have to lose an idol before you can be free. Christ made the ultimate statement of what’s important for the saint: “If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple” (Luke 14:26). Obviously, since Christ tells us in another place to love even our enemies, He’s making a comparison between temporal and eternal things. 

 The Apostle Paul made the same comparison: “I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish … that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead” (Philippians 3:7-11). 

 When an idol has been removed from the saint, he can focus more on Christ. “Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God” (Colossians 3:2-3). “Though the fig tree may not blossom, Nor fruit be on the vines …Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation” (Habakkuk 3:17-18). 

 Christ loves you - nothing can change that. Whatever troubles come, we need to grow up in Christ; let’s show we’re not little children to be depressed by what happens in this poor fleeting state of time. Our citizenship is in Heaven, and therefore, we’ll see the wreck of everything earthborn, and yet rejoice in the God of our salvation.