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When people
take an oath, they call on someone greater than themselves to hold them to it.
And without any question that oath is binding. God also bound himself with an
oath, so that those who received the promise could be perfectly sure that he
would never change his mind. So God has given us both his promise and his oath.
These two things are unchangeable because it is impossible for God to lie.
Therefore, we who have fled to him for refuge can take new courage, for we can
hold on to his promise with confidence. This confidence is like a strong and
trustworthy anchor for our souls. It leads us through the curtain of heaven into
God's inner sanctuary. Jesus has already gone in there for us. He has become our
eternal High Priest in the line of Melchizedek.
(Hebrews 6:16-20 NLV). One
of the greatest hymns of faith was written in 1834 by Edward Mote and put to
music by William B. Bradbury in 1863. “On
Christ the Solid Rock” has been a staple of Christian hymnals for many years.
The lyrics are: "My
hope is built on nothing less, "On
Christ the Solid Rock I stand, It
is amazing what we place our confidence in these days. We hope that a ton of
metal can maneuver safely on a fourteen-foot strip of pavement at speeds many
times faster than we can walk. We hope that a small plastic card will negotiate
an agreement with a stubby metal box and convince the box to hand over hundreds
of dollars any time of the day or night. We hope that a network of very loosely
organized computers, chained together by marginally reliable phone lines, will
deliver important messages to those we love, halfway around the world. Speaking
of computers, one of the greatest tools the computer has to offer is the Spell
Checker. I am very grateful for the Spell Checker. It haze the ability to look
threw a litter and sea if their wood bee even won wrong world. Over the year, i
half groan so confident with this suspect of the program, that I know longer
knead to proof text me work. The niece think is the security I fill end knowing
that the Spill Kicker will ever flail me nor lead me drown! And the nice thing is that all of the examples work, most of the time. It is the times when the email gets lost, the Money Machine is down, or the car careens out of control, that we begin to understand why we need a solid, secure Place in which to trust the safety of our very lives. We live in a world of "almosts." It is almost perfect, it is almost flawless, and it almost always works as planned. Almost! Thank God that we don’t need to worry about His faithfulness being one of those “almosts”! He is a “Solid Rock,” the Anchor of our soul”! He is our unshakable Hope! Trust in Him today! |
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