Strong and Steady

What qualities would you want in a ladder: perhaps … strong and steady?  Do these two words describe you spiritually?  This I can say without reservation or hesitation: Satan’s strong-and-steady attacks often are spiritually unsettling!   Every circumstance of life is consistently inconsistent; how then do I maintain a constancy to God as He is to me?  Of the Apostle Paul’s strong and steady consistency in life, Oswald Chambers wrote, “he could let his external life change without internal distress because he was rooted and grounded in God.”  Our Christianity is not established in how deeply or regularly we dig into God’s Word, or how long or often we bow out heads in prayer, or how dedicated we are to Christ’s Church, or even how many times we share the Gospel.  No, the roots of our faith rest solely in “Christ crucified” (1 Corinthians 1:21).  We boast in nothing else. “God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ …” (Galatians 6:14).  There – and there alone – is the Consistency in and by which we live.  Deep roots – unwavering, stable, constant, steadfast.  Christ is the Strong and Steady in this weak and wobbly world.  There – in Him – let us live!