God Shakes

        Have you ever wonder "does God shake us and if so for what"?  I've been looking at verses this past week with the word" shaken" in them or another form or word meaning the same. I compared the Old Testament and the New Testament. There are more verses in the Old Testament with that word in them. Don't take it has that's all if the 33 verses in the Bible with that word. That is just how many I found in a week.
           Here is what I learned from the verses in the Old Testament. Every time I would read one it would be about a person being shaken (aka in trouble) and God coming to save them. The phases "lean on God" and "God wants us to really depend on Him" came to my mind. It shows His grace and mercy for us. There was a lot of verses in the Psalm from David struggling.  A man after God's own heart.
            Now here is what I noticed in the new Testament. When the word "shaken" was uses it was mainly when God or the Holy Spirit was coming down to help or show people something. That could be taken as God loves us enough to come be with us and help us in time of need.
          It is just strange to me that people think the Christian life is easy but it's not. It seems easy because we have a God that we can depend on and he wants us too. We have our struggles too whether physically, mentally, emotionally,  or even spiritually because the devil will try anything to get to us. We do have to rely depend on God if we want anything done at all. God loves us more then anything in the world ever will.
          If you look these up it will help you see the story of salvation or it did me anyway. God was not there (aka He let us get to the point that of struggling before He came to help) in the old testament but He was there (when we called to Him) in the New Testament.
         Here are some of the verses if you want to look them up: 2 Samuel 18:33, 1 Samuel 28:21, Psalm 16:7-11, Psalm 21:7, Psalm 30:6-7, Psalm 55:21-22, Psalm 55:18, Psalm 62:2,6, Psalm 125:1, Isaiah 24:19, and Isaiah 54:10. Now New Testament verses: Luke 21:26, Acts 2:25, Matthew 24:29 and Mark 13:24-25, Acts 4:31, Acts 16:26, and Hebrews 12:26-29.