Cling To The Rock
"But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash." -- Matthew 7:26-27
One of the good things about all the economic turmoil has been that people maybe have learned what's important in life. It's just so easy to get caught up in the day-to-day stuff, focused on jobs and chores and homework, that we forget the people time, the God time, the down time.
I've always loved this passage in the Bible. We think that a good job keeps us safe. We believe that a nice house makes us fit in, We just know that a new car will make us happy. Then, one day, all that is gone. The job is eliminated. The house is no longer affordable. And the new car comes with a high payment that can't be paid. Suddenly, everything we thought kept us safe is gone.
And there we are. All those things that kept us safe, helped us belong, made us happy are gone. We are left with ourselves -- and God. He's always there whether we see Him or not. He never leaves us, no matter how many times we turn our backs on Him.
The previous verses in this passage say to build our foundation on a rock. God is that rock. That way when our world falls down around us, we won't be destroyed. We'll survive because our foundation is solid and can't be moved. That's called depending on God for everything.
And sometimes when all the crap is out of the way and our lives are laid bare, we can clearly see God and His love. It is then that we come to understand our true value doesn't come from jobs or things. Our true value comes from belonging to Him.
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