(C) Cheryl Howard 2009

All about you things are crumbling, uncertainty and fear

Anxiety encroaches swallowing you, it’s a hole, you can’t go there

The things that you once trusted, Gone!

In shreds, an economy now busted, not strong!

 

 

You face a dark horizon, stormy clouds are all about

Your reference points have disappeared, so scared you want to shout

Frozen and immobilised, you don’t know what to do

Panic squeezes and grips your mind, in prison it’s holding you

 

 

O hear the voice of your great GOD as HE speaks to you HIS plan

Your safety and security are not in this world but in HIS SON’s hands

Don’t by your mountains be overshadowed and dismayed

But by HIS protection be held, as you nestle close and obey

 

 

There is not a thing you are facing HE hasn’t known

If you trust in HIS goodness by this howling wind you’ll not be blown

Your life HE would cover in HIS shielding grace

HE offers power and provision for those who seek HIS face

 

 

Your life must be built on foundations immovable

HE’s our Fortress and Rock, strong and unassailable

HIS care for you is constant, mighty and true

HE knows what you need and your good will HE do!

 

 

 

 

thought for the journey …

The best way to find out ‘who’ or ‘what’ we are leaning on is to have the rug ripped out from underneath our feet - only then can we see what foundation we have been building our lives upon. What are you trusting in? What, or who makes you feel safe, secure and held?

 

Hebrews 12:26b-29 “‘Yet once more I shake not only the earth, but also heaven.’ Now this, ‘Yet once more,’ indicates the removal of those things that are being shaken, as of things that are made, that the things which cannot be shaken may remain. Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve GOD acceptably with reverence and godly fear. For our GOD is a consuming fire.”

 

The removal of those things that are being shaken..things that are made …. things which cannot be shaken may remain…we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken ….

There is only One safe foundation for us to be built upon - CHRIST, The Stone which ‘the builders’ rejected Who is The Chief Cornerstone! Our economy may be tottering, ready to fall headlong into an abyss, the things we have known and comfortably shared our lives with may be all sliding down the proverbial gurgler … in truth we are facing a very uncertain future, uncertain to us that is - but not to our LORD and SAVIOR. When HE has finished ’shaking’ us, let us pray that HE finds an unshakable, strong foundation of trust and confidence in HIM - in HIS power and ability to ‘keep’ us!

Psalm 81:7 “You called in trouble and I delivered you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Meribah(Strife or Contention). Selah.” 

GOD desires to know our hearts - and more importantly, for us to know our hearts. How easy it is to profess trust in HIM when the sun is shining and all is right in our world - we don’t know the truth about ourselves until all contenders for our trust and faith are stripped from us and we stand naked before our GOD, either crying out to HIM in hope and desperation, or railing at HIM for taking away the comforts and securities we have been trusting in.

 

Hebrews 13:5-6 “Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For HE HIMSELF has said, ‘I will never leave you nor forsake you.’ So we may boldly say: ‘The LORD is my Helper; I will not fear. What can man do to me!’”

 

So let’s hold tight to our GOD, let’s trust in HIS word, and trust HIM to keep HIS word - for HE is TRUE! HE will keep us, come what may if we choose to depend upon HIM above all else and we put our confidence in HIM and HIS trustworthiness and goodness, and we make HIM our ‘Hiding Place’ - HE is YHWH Yireh ‘The-LORD-Will-Provide’ (Genesis 22:14).  Psalm 37:25 “I have been young, and now am old; yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his descendants begging bread.”

 

Psalm 84:11 “For The LORD is a sun and shield; The LORD will give grace and glory; No good thing will HE withhold from those who walk uprightly!”

HE is our ROCK! Don’t build your life on anyone or anything else, but be built upon The CHRIST Alone!