Look To The Rock

I watched the news yesterday. Guess what?  It was all bad!  Go figure. What with terrorists, armed lunatics, economic lunacy, climate change or climate change politics (you decide), super bugs, Obama Scare (er, uh, Care), identity thieves, identified thieves (synonym for politicians), etc. - what chance do we have?  According to the doom and gloom crowd, not much, if any. 

However, according to the Word, it is foolishness to listen to the nay sayers and fear mongers.  Listen instead to the prophet Isaiah, "Who are you that you fear mere mortals...that you forget the Lord your Maker, who stretches out the heavens and who lays the foundations of the earth, that you live in constant terror every day…" (51:12, 13)?

Isaiah has a much better source for future hope: "Look to the rock from which you were cut and to the quarry from which you were hewn" (51:1).   Jesus uses the same imagery in Luke 6:46-49, in telling the parable of the wise man who built his house upon the rock and it withstood the storm compared to the foolish man who built upon the sand and was washed away. 

If your life is built upon the Rock, Jesus Christ, you need not fear the future for God's got this. Therefore, instead of listening to the gloomy forecasts with trepidation, look to the Rock in assurance. If your life is built on other than that Rock, you might want to worry or better yet, rebuild on the solid Rock of the Lord Jesus Christ. 

Jus' Sayn.