You know, because I'm a person who kind of always interested in words and meaning of words,

I've often questioned myself when I hear a word that's used and I keep asking myself,

what's that mean? For example, when I call a hospital to check on a patient,

and they say, well, he's in a stable condition. I kind of scratch my head, what was that mean?

Because the Oxford Dictionary

define stable as firmly fixed, not easily to be moved. And I wonder, I said, I say,

not getting better or not getting worse. Is that what it means? Another definition of the

word stable is resolute, not wavering, or fickle.

And in reality, when it comes to our spiritual lives, being stable should be the goal of every single believer in the Lord Jesus Christ.

And the reason for that is we easily moved. If we allow our

emotions to take over, we will be all over the map. But to be spiritually stable means that

you are not easily shaken, that you are not easily adrift with the prevailing mood of culture,

that you are not easily carried away by the waves of public opinions,

that you are not easily swept off your feet with every new fad that comes into town.

That's what it means. Spiritual stability

is the burden of most, if not all, the writers in the New Testament. It is the burden of their

hearts. It's the burden of the Apostle Paul. He literally talks about it in every epistle.

It is the burden of Peter and James. And that literally talks about it in every epistle. It is the burden of

Peter and James. And that is why in 1st Thessalonian 3.8, Paul said, for now we really live when we're

standing firm in the Lord. In 2, Thessalonians 2.15, he said, so then brothers, stand firm.

James in chapter 1, verse 8 tells us about the person who's lacking spiritual stability.

He said he is double-minded and unstable in all his ways.

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