Holding Onto God's Word

Psalm 128 (Amplified Bible)
A Song of Ascents.
    1[a]BLESSED (HAPPY, fortunate, to be envied) is everyone who fears, reveres, and worships the Lord, who walks in His ways and lives according to His commandments.
    2For you shall eat [the fruit] of the labor of your hands; happy (blessed, fortunate, enviable) shall you be, and it shall be well with you.
    3Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine in the innermost parts of your house; your children shall be like olive plants round about your table.
    4Behold, thus shall the man be blessed who reverently and worshipfully fears the Lord.
    5May the Lord bless you out of Zion [His sanctuary], and may you see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life;
    6Yes, may you see your children's children. Peace be upon Israel!

How often do we trust what we cannot see?

Admittedly, we are creatures of touch and habit.  We like our senses tickled, our emotions appeased.  We only (and conveniently) believe in things that can be weighed.  Or at least felt.

But time and time again, when I open my bible or read a devotional, God constantly challenges me to believe in the things that I cannot see.  Because what can be seen, touch, tasted, is always subject to the laws of time.  And ironically, because we can feel them, they are always temporal.  Even happiness/frustration/trying circumstances, will pass. 

Because if what can be seen is ephemeral, what cannot be seen, must then be eternal.  God's word cannot be seen, it is invisible. It surpasses the physical laws of Nature and confounds the wisest of men.  The only thing that it is, is sure.  And God's word lasts forever.

Maybe if we, being trapped in temporal circumstances, choose to step out and hold onto His word which is eternal, I think we naturally become closer to being truly unshakeable---especially in times of shaking.