Guest column: God provides certainty during fast-moving times

2013-04-17 19:31:50


Why did they do that?



In his famous Sermon on the Mount, Jesus Christ concluded his instruction to a great crowd of listeners with an illustration: "Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.

"And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock" (Matthew 7:24-25).



"And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it" (Matthew 7:26-27).


The reference to building a foundation on the rock was more than a word picture. Throughout the Bible, "Rock" is a common name for God, especially in the Old Testament.

In the New Testament, the apostle Paul reminds believers that the Israelites who wandered in the wilderness during the Exodus "all ate the same spiritual food and all drank the same spiritual drink."

"For they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ" (I Corinthians 10:3-4).


One day it's a fiscal cliff. Then it's massive budget cuts by the federal government, tax increases, tuition hikes, skyrocketing insurance premiums, rising gas prices, companies sending jobs to foreign countries, dire warnings about gun usage and gun confiscation, and home-grown terrorism.

Meanwhile, politicians and their constituents cry "the sky is falling" with seemingly every decision.



God assures us that He is neither prone to shifting winds, nor temporary. He is a "sure foundation" embodied in Jesus Christ, according to the Old Testament book of Isaiah (verse 28:21).

For those who put their faith and trust in Jesus Christ, we have "a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens" (2 Corinthians 5:1). Building on the Rock, a sure foundation.



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