We live in an era where the only constant is change. Technology evolve overnight, culture norms shift like quicksand, and the global rhythm is fragmented. A time when the structure of the world we have relied on feel fragile and the future feels uncertain.
The only constant is God, Hebrews 13:8 says,
“Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.”
Disruption forces us out of our comfort zones. It breaks routines and challenges assumptions. When the world around us is in upheaval, it’s easy for our inner lives to become just as turbulent. We might find ourselves asking: “Where is solid ground?”
The book of Hebrews provides us with a visual anchor for a disrupted world. While everything else is subject to obsolescence, decay, or transformation, Jesus remains entirely unchanged. He is not scrambling to adapt to the times. He is not caught off guard by worldly shifts. His character, His love, and His promises are immune to disruption.
I believe everything happening in the world is in Matthew 24. When we look at what is happening the disruption of the world feels like an understatement. The systemic breakdowns, environmental crises, societal polarization, and the global anxiety that never seems to quiet down. It feels like the world is spinning out of control. But Matthew 24 Jesus paints us a picture of profound disruption, deception, international conflict, earthquakes, and widespread betrayal. Everything begins to sound terrifying familiar. Jesus uses a highly specific and intentional metaphor to describe these events as “birth pains.”
Birth pains are intensely painful, unpredictable, and disruptive. They signal that the current state of things is being completely broken down.
The disruption of the world is not a story of God losing control -it is the messy, painful labor of creation waiting to be reborn.
Because we know the purpose behind the pain, Jesus gives us a command the we need to be aware of constantly as we face a fractured world: See to it that you are not alarmed. The shaking of the earth is a runway for the return of the King. It is the breakdown of human systems that our ultimate citizenship is in a unshakable Kingdom.
It is time to look up focus on God and the one thing that can’t be shaken.
“You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. Nation will rise against national, and kingdom against kingdom. There will famines and earthquakes in various places. All these things are the beginning of birth pains” Matthew 24: 6-8
I believe Matthew 24 is the comparison of global disruption to biblical prophecy. It serves as a reminder that global disruption is a signal to look up in faith, rather than sinking into fear.
