The Scripture teaches us that at the end of time, all that can be shaken will be shaken, until what cannot be shaken will remain (Hebrews 12:26–27). Everything we see in the universe will fade away, but in God’s perfect timing, only what cannot be shaken remains.
We, as believers in Christ, are called to seek imperishable things—the things of heaven which the Holy Spirit in us desires—and not perishable things which the world runs after and our sinful nature desires.
We are called not to gratify the evil desires of the flesh but to submit to the power of God’s divine Spirit in us that helps us to be obedient to God’s command: to love Him with all our hearts, minds, souls, and strength, and to love others by not being solely focused on our own interests, but considering others’ needs and loving unconditionally as our Heavenly Father has loved and forgiven us our sins by His blessings of unmerited, unearned, undeserved grace upon us (Galatians 5:16–17; Deuteronomy 6:5; Philippians 2:3–4; Ephesians 2:8–9).
We believe in His Son’s perfect sacrifice on the cross for our sins and put our complete trust in Him as our Lord and Saviour (John 3:16; Romans 10:9–10). Our Lord Jesus Christ has warned us as believers in Him that we will face troubles in this world, and the world will fight and oppose us just as they rejected and crucified Him for telling the truth and preaching the gospel of God’s unconditional love, mercy, and grace towards us sinners (John 15:18–20; John 16:33).
He encouraged us to be of good courage and persevere, for He has conquered the world on our behalf. As it is written: “The battle is the Lord’s” (1 Samuel 17:47), so we should give allowance for God’s vengeance on the unrepentant, ungodly sinners who refuse to repent of wickedness and remain prideful, ignoring and treating God’s Word with contempt (Romans 12:19).
As it is written: “God does not want even the death of the wicked but that they should repent of their sins” (Ezekiel 18:23; 2 Peter 3:9) and make God their only refuge and make peace with Him in their hearts (Psalm 46:1).
We, as believers, are called to persevere, for even the creation itself is frustrated and groans to be renewed into a new creation with a new earth and a new heaven (Romans 8:19–22; Revelation 21:1). The world is like a pregnant woman waiting to give birth—as the day of birth draws closer, the pains increase, but when the child is born, the mother is filled with joy and forgets all the pain she endured, rejoicing to see the newborn child (John 16:21).
We are called to persevere and run the race before us with endurance, and since we have a great cloud of witnesses surrounding us, we must throw off everything that hinders and the sin that easily ensnares, and endure in hope (Hebrews 12:1–2). We serve a God of hope who fills us with His peace and joy as we put our trust in Him, our everlasting Rock and only strength (Romans 15:13; Isaiah 26:4).
May the power of the Holy Spirit fill us with hope so that we overflow with hope in the power of the Holy Spirit in Christ our Lord who lives in us. As it is written: “The work of God is this: to believe in the One He has sent” (John 6:29), the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world (John 1:29).
We are called to believe and have faith, which is the assurance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen (Hebrews 11:1). We thank God that in Christ Jesus, we have a hope that is firm and secure, and that in the death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, we have been given a new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Christ from the dead (1 Peter 1:3–4).
We are called to love unconditionally, for God is love (1 John 4:8), and love is of God. When we love others as we are called to do, forgiving others and being merciful to those who wrong us, God is merciful to us (Matthew 6:14–15; Luke 6:36). We are called not to judge, since if we judge others, God will use the same measure to judge us (Matthew 7:1–2).