I was sitting in the big living room recliner Tuesday evening here in Caldwell, Idaho, when I wondered how the vibrator got turned on – immediately realizing this chair doesn’t have a vibrator! The vibrator was six miles deep up in the mountains a hundred miles from us and it was vibrating at 6.5 on the Richter scale.
It happened while we were watching the evening news, so news anchors in the area were scrambling to find the epicenter and rating and how far away it was felt. Finally, one local anchor commented on people being scared saying, “I guess it all depends on whether you built your house on a rock or on the sand.”
Oh my. When you get news anchors paraphrasing Scripture it’s like being in the Twilight Zone.
The Scripture he was referring to is Matthew 7:24-27: “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on 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.”
These are certainly strange times, beloved. All kinds of things happening around us … even the ground shaking as an exclamation point that we really have little control. As we struggle to contain a novel virus, practice social distancing and heed the stay-at-home directive, even the very ground under our feet acts as it will without regard for how we feel.
When everyone around us is reacting with fear, we must remember that we have built our house on The Rock, Christ Jesus. And, “There is no Rock like our God.” [1 Sam 2:2]
Amen & Amen