It's Christ's job to knock us off balance, and he's good at it. We begin with a self-centered life, and he immediately dismantles that false center, to replace it with the GodCenter that we need.
It's been my observation that people fear anything out of the ordinary, because ordinary, normal, everyday stuff seems secure, safe. The work of God is never safe and it's never secure in the usual way, but to get to His arms takes a jump, and the faith that He'll catch us. So, I would think that what the world views as safe is actually toxic chains.
If God parted the Red Sea today, how many would think it was a National Enquirer tall tale? How many would think it was something evil doing it? Things weren't much different in Christ's day...we can at least understand where the crowds were coming from when they dropped their mouths at what Christ was doing. If he ain't amazin' and astonishin', he ain't Christ.
-cel