Immovable!

​There are many things in our constantly shifting and changing culture that can move us, making you and me feel insecure.  
 

• Negative news can move us.
• Economic downturns can move us.
• Political upheavals can move us.
• Terrorist activity can move us.
• Personal setbacks can move us.
• Sudden reversals can move us.
• Negative health reports can move us. 
• Broken relationships can move us.
• Satan’s assaults can move us.

 
So, what do we do to not be moved by these and other things that move and shake up so many people? 
 
In the God’s Word, the Bible, David has good news for all who want to be immovable in a lost world on the move whose movement is away from God and His Word. 
 
 “Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but abides forever. As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the Lord surrounds His people, from this time forth and forever.”  Psalm 125:1-2
 

• Those who “trust in the Lord” are the people who cannot be moved. If we want to be immovable and unshaken, we must place our faith in God and His unshakable, unmovable Word. 

 
The key to being immovable is trust. Trust in the Lord. When you and I put our faith in the Lord, we are like Mount Zion, God’s Holy City, which cannot be moved. Please note the word is “cannot be moved.” Mount Zion refers to Jerusalem in the Old Testament and “the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem” in the New Testament (Hebrews 12:22).
 
 Metaphorically, Mount Zion is where God resides. Think about it for a moment.  Who or what is big or bad enough to move God’s habitation? The answer is…no one nor anything. Mount Zion is rock solid and immovable. In addition to being unmovable, Zion is eternal. It lasts forever and does not change though everything else does. 
            

• Jerusalem is a rock solid, immovable city because of the seven mountains that surround it. Seven is the number for God and perfection in His Kingdom. David uses this picture of protection and security to reveal to us that as the mountains surround Jerusalem, “so the Lord surrounds His people.”  Did you catch what David just said? The Psalmist said that God surrounds His people. 

 
Wow! Incredible! Blows my tiny little mind! The Lord God Almighty. The Creator of the universe. Our Heavenly Father who raised His only Son from the dead to save all who believe. The Holy One and His heavenly host surrounds everyone who puts their faith in Him. People of faith are immovable because God surrounds and secures them. 
 
In the Roll household we have a surround sound system in our family room. When it is in operation mode, the soundtrack from the movie we are watching envelopes our family. When the woofer is on, the sound wraps itself around us and even vibrates the house! We are so absorbed and surrounded by sound, that nothing can move us from watching the movie on the television. 
            
The surrounding sound is cool. But being surrounded by God is absolutely awesome! 
 

• Bottom line, not being moved (“cannot be moved”) is all about trust. 

 
TRUST IN THE LORD. You and I are immovable when our trust is in God. He surrounds us with His love, care, might, strength, power and protection when we trust in Him. Conversely, we are movable and shakable when we do not trust in Him. Our lives can be shaken up when we look away from the Lord and allow our faith to be shaken. 
 

• Movement in life does not mean I have to be moved.  

 
As a Christian, I choose to not be moved because I choose Christ. If I truly believe what I say I believe, I cannot be moved because Jesus is the immovable rock of my life. He alone is my rock and my salvation (Psalm 62). All the power of hell can come against me to try and move me away from God. But Satan’s feeble, futile attempts to shake me up fail every time because I put my faith in my unshakable, immovable Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.  
 

• My fellow Christian, where is your trust today? Are you being moved by things that should not be moving you? Or are you standing firm in faith, immovable in Christ? 

 

• When tempted to be moved by something other than God’s Word, boldly declare “I will not be moved because I trust in the Lord.”  

            
“My soul waits in silence for God only, for my hope is in Him. He only is my rock and my salvation, my stronghold; I shall not be shaken.”                                         Psalm 62:5-6
 
“Therefore, everyone who hears these words of Mine, and acts upon them, may be compared to a wise man, who built his house upon the rock. And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and burst against that house; and yet it did not fall, for it had been founded upon the rock.”                                                    Matthew 7:24-25
 
“Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, IMMOVABLE, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain in the Lord.”            I Corinthians 15:58
 
A Word For Your Week: Do not be moved by what moves other people.