SHAKEN, PURIFIED and WASHED AWAY...

THINGS ARE BEING SHAKEN, PURIFIED and WASHED AWAY. So our job is to listen, understand by faith, obey and hear God's voice..... "See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if they did not escape who refused Him who spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from Him who speaks from heaven, whose voice then shook the earth; but now He has promised, saying, "Yet once more I shake not only the earth, but also heaven." Now this, "yet once more," indicates the removal of those things that are being shaken, as of things that are made, that the things which cannot be shaken may remain. Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. For our God is a consuming fire." Hebrews 12:25-29
"But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He is like a refiner's fire and like launderers' soap. He will set as a refiner and a purifier of silver; He will purify the sons of Levi, And purge them as gold and silver, That they may offer to the LORD an offering in righteousness." Malachi 3:2-3 (this is in our future, global future, remember the word is for the whole world, everyday, in every way).... Our job? Stay ready and steady.

God is large and quite in charge right now. He's gone before all we see, and is over all we are under, and He's right with us, ever present. He is doing a much larger thing. He is bringing His plan for the ages, into place. Things may appear to be falling apart, when they are actually being put exactly into place according to God. Events may look unfair and random to us. We must trust and obey, asking to see through the eyes of faith, what He has set before each of us. These will be different things at different times. We must stay in fellowship, in touch with oneanother, to encourage and keep perspective. He is our certainty, our solidity and our rock. No thing is out of His purview. We see clearly when we walk by faith and not by sight. We find fog, when we take our eyes off of Jesus and gaze into the world. We find clarity, truth and encouragement in His word. We find hope, when we pray for oneanother. We grow spiritual muscle when we view battles, even street riots, through the eyes of faith. Currently we see many blind guides, leading blind followers, into a fall. We, sighted believers, stand tall, prayerful, and listening to God, through it all. 

Today Americans are seeing opposers and those fearing loss of power, in the streets, making speeches, encouraging protests and fighting to stay in charge. Americans have voted. God is working. Faith it, standing steady in love and peace. He's got this, and us!

"Father, please drown out all competing voices for our attention, so we can hear truth in this "post-truth" age. Help us to obey and walk abiding, steadily in Jesus. Thank You and we ask these things in the name of Your Son Jesus and for His sake. Amen."

It's official: Truth is dead. Facts are passe.
And this sentiment — 😂 — is so last year.
Oxford Dictionaries has selected “post-truth” as 2016's international word of the year, after the contentious “Brexit” referendum and an equally divisive U.S. presidential electioncaused usage of the adjective to skyrocket, according to the Oxford University Press.

The dictionary defines “post-truth” as “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.”