Matthew 7:25 “The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock.”
There was a story in the news this week about a man who was sleeping in his bedroom and all of a sudden, the earth underneath his bedroom gave way, and he disappeared into a sink hole. This event happened in Florida. This state sits on top of limestone which is a very porous rock that easily dissolves in water. There is a layer of clay that sits on top and in some places the clay is very thick and makes them even more prone to sinkholes. I thought about this poor man and how in an instant, he had the ground ripped from under his feet. The ground is something we feel secure on. We trust it to be there. We walk on it, drive on it and even build our houses on it. Our ground was safe and secure until that ground was pulled out from under our feet. The loss of our children shakes us to our core. We find ourselves facing the future without the child we loved. It is in this place of the unknown where we will find out just how strong our foundation is. Is our faith superficial or is our foundation strong enough to weather the storm? James 1:22-27 instructs us how to deepen our foundation. We are to not merely listen to the word, but we are to do what it says. Scripture tells us that in obeying God’s word we will experience freedom. We are free from the control of sin in our lives, and we have the promise of spending eternity with the Rock and all of those we love. We can depend on the Lord when the ground beneath us is shaken and we feel we are sinking.
Lord, I love these words, “When darkness veils His lovely face, I rest on His unchanging grace; in every high and stormy gale my anchor holds within the veil. On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand; all other ground is sinking sand; all other ground is sinking sand.”
