✨ Reflection ✨

God shakes things to get our attention—so He can reveal something to us.

And that’s good news, even when the situation feels bad.

Scripture says the shaking involves removal. The removing of things that can be shaken—created things. God is intentionally changing something in the physical to replace it with something in the spiritual.

Why?

Because He sees how attached we’ve become to what we can see, touch, and control. To the things our five senses are comfortable with. When we get illegitimately attached to the wrong kingdom, God will create a disturbance to detach us.

We’re supposed to live in this world—but we’re not supposed to be tied to it.
It was never meant to be our ultimate obligation.

So disruption is what He brings.

When God creates a disturbance, it is an uncomfortable situation designed to produce something better from the spiritual realm for our lives. It’s usually not desired. Not preferred. Not welcomed. Nobody asks for it.

But if you will tune your ear—if you will listen—you’ll discover that God is speaking when He disrupts the natural order of things.

He’s revealing that you are part of an unshakable kingdom.

He’s also showing us why we can’t be overly tethered to this world, this culture, this system. Because He will shake it. And if all your eggs are in that basket, you’ll be shaken too.

It’s the things that are attached that get shaken.

If there’s an earthquake on the ground, the people in the air aren’t shaken—because they’re not attached. And what God wants to do is lift us into a higher spiritual reality. A kingdom that isn’t attached—so it doesn’t shake when everything else does.

When the floor is pulled out from under everything around you, when systems collapse, when stability disappears—God is allowing the shaking to reveal what cannot be shaken.

It doesn’t mean the circumstances aren’t real.
It means they’re no longer in control.

They’re no longer dictating.
They’re no longer calling the shots.

Because the kingdom you belong to is unshakable.

So when your world feels turned upside down—when things are in discord—God is saying something very specific:

Time to go deeper.

Disturbance is an invitation to go deeper.

And how do you go deeper?

Scripture says—since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us show gratitude.

That’s the instruction.

Because the natural response when everything is shaken is to complain. To resist. To say I don’t like this, I don’t want this, I don’t agree with this.

But gratitude is what anchors us when everything else is moving.

— LeYonce

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