Make God's truths what you stand on. Make God your foundation. Why settle for the sand when you have access to the rock? You're looking for something to build your life on because it has to be built on something. We know we need a solid foundation, a rock solid foundation, but somehow when we're trying to find rock-solid we decided that the term is “solid as sand” over “solid as a rock”.
We watch our lives get torn apart time and time again when a storm comes but we’d rather stick with the sand which is ironic because all common sense says to build a house on a solid foundation but I guess we like watching our lives get torn apart, I guess we like suffering for no reason, I guess we like to avoid having eternal life since apparently we love that we’re destroying our souls and our lives by building as far away from the Rock as possible. Sand caves in. A sinkhole can open up below the sand. What’s supporting the sand? More sand? The grains of sand don’t support each other. Materialistic things, there’s no combination that will cause the sand to become stable. You see others doing the same, maybe some are building their lives in the sand that’s already in the water. Their life is falling apart but they’re still trying to build on the sand. You watch for hours as they frantically attempt to build their house in the water. Boards, nails, and tools drift off into the open waters. Other people are trying to do the same. You watch them. You see one person in particular that’s trying to build their house, practically underwater, as the wind picks up, causing the currents to move rapidly.
The sand starts to slip out from under you, not too much is blowing away so you decide to stay where you are as you continue to watch the person building their house underwater, but still on sand. All of a sudden the person you were watching is swept away into the water by the currents. They’re nowhere to be seen. The sand had given out and the waters swept the person away. You knew that person, pretty much everyone knew them, the popular kid, great at whatever they wanted to do, kind, went out of their way to help others, the person everyone thought was so put together. It sounded like a pretty cool life but you watched as they began to make it the foundation of their life. You just saw their foundation give out from beneath them and they’re gone.
You’re still trying to process what just happened when this tsunami of a wave is coming over the beach. You and many others run for the rock, knowing that if you can make it, you’ll be safe. Some of you make it, others don’t. As soon as the storm calms down, some people immediately head back to the sand. This time, you watch from the rock as the process repeats itself, but this time, more people were swept away, even some of the people who survived the first wave, they didn’t make it back in time. Again, some people leave the rock to go back to the sand, only running to the rock in times of trouble, or not coming to the rock at all. Many people stay on the sand nearest to the rock, so that they can still be in the sand, but quickly reach the rock. You watch them get taken into the storm.
You get curious and decide to step off the rock. You get in the sand and it swallows you whole. You see the rock, you reach out, knowing it’s too far for you to reach on your own, you beg and plea, are you getting back up on that rock or are you out of chances? You have no idea how few or how many chances you’re going to get but every chance is the same opportunity, nothing new to expect so why risk the current chance you have that could be your only opportunity?
The choice is yours, eternal life with God and building your life on Him, your relationship with Him— or building your life on materialistic things and relationships with people that will be destroyed in the end and amount to nothing.
The sand? Or the Rock?
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