How Easy It Is To Trash God

Over the past several weeks I've wondered why it is that we who blog about our religious heritage and what that means both to us and to our world are considered insignificant. And why, when movie goers are gunned down, little school children are murdered in their classrooms and scores of innocent people are slaughtered by drug dealers, why is it we think the solution is to pass more laws? Isn't there something deeper and more important to consider? Have we not lost touch with the very foundations upon which those laws rest? Listen to words supposedly delivered by Ben Stein on CBS Sunday Morning a few years ago. Stein didn't actually say it this way. Whoever penned the words does, however, speak to my concerns.

Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we should worship celebrities, and we aren't allowed to worship God as we understand Him? I guess that's a sign that I'm getting old, too. But there are a lot of us who are wondering where these celebrities came from and where the America we knew went to. . . .

Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world's going to hell. Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says. Funny how you can send 'jokes' through e-mail and they spread like wildfire, but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing. Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and workplace.

Are you laughing yet?

Funny how we can be more worried about what other people think of us than what God thinks of us.

The LORD Jesus Christ put it this way in his Sermon on the Mount:

"Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it." - Mat 7:24-27 ESV

The wise man Jesus speaks about is the man who knows how to protect his family. He is prudent, cautious, has foresight and is intelligent. He knows how to build a house that will withstand floods and wind storms. All too many build upon sand. Now the storms are raging and those houses are trembling, creaking and beginning to fall down.

I pray that you are building a house for your family upon the only solid rock there is.