Peril: Stand or Fall

"One thing we are realizing today, is that to the majority of us, civilized life is an elaborate way of doing without God. We have not been living life hid with Christ in God; we have been living in the abundance of the things which we possess. When they are shaken, terror, panic, and mental imbecility have laid hold of people who are normally very strong-minded and disdainful with regard to the phase of truth, but the shattering of the pillars of their refuge has come. Thank God , He still leaves His mighty, winning, wooing Spirit with us."

--- Oswald Chambers, "Christian Disciplines" ---