Live in the Steady

Steady is good.  Personally, I want a surgeon with a steady hand, a bus driver with a steady focus on the road, a sheriff with a steady eye on the law.  Like I said, steady is good!

 

In Peter’s second letter to the early Church, he uses an interesting term that is easily applied to the Believers today, He is describing men who teach contrary to the words of Christ – “bold and willful, they do not tremble,” Peter says (2 Peter 2:10).  The phrase that especially caught my eye, however, Peter applies to Christians who listen to the lies – he describes them as “unsteady souls” (2:14).  Now, like then, the days are unsteady as is popular thought!  Here’s the imminent danger: if we do not know Truth, we cannot know lies!  Honestly, only within the last twenty-five years of my personal life have I come to understand this concept and how critical it is to the Christian’s life.  Under the true and faithful teaching of a former pastor and his wife, God changed me.  Peter challenges us to be anchored in not “waterless springs … mists driven by a storm … loud boasts of folly” (V.17-18) but to be “established in the truth” (V.12) of the Lord Jesus Christ.  Ah! there’s the Steady.  Only Jesus at His second coming will silence the voices of deceit that attract the unsteady but we need not be counted among them.  Our hope is built in nothing less than Jesus’ Blood and Righteousness!  Live steady!