What is your Rock?
As we all know, the financial world is going through turbulent times that are literally being felt all over the world. More than 30 have died in the last days due to a string of bombings in Baghdad. Hyperinflation in Zimbabwe has caused more than 80% of the population in that country to live below the poverty line. Up to 1 million people have been killed in Somalia in the last 15 years as a result of uprisings. Life on a fallen planet, inhabited by sinful people, is not always a walk in the park. In the midst of all this, among many other difficulties that life may throw at us, what is our Rock? What is our security?
What we run to in times of trouble reveals where our heart truly is. Do we run to the true God, or to a finite, temporal god (money, work, family) when the pressure is on? There's nothing wrong with family or work or money, but when they take the place of God, they become idols. What we naturally turn to in difficulty shows what we value the most, and therefore, what we worship. Becoming more like Christ means that there is a continual process of amputating the idols (remnant sin) that are present in our lives and to instead worship God in every area of life. This is a lifelong process that will not be perfectly complete until our ultimate glorification on the last day.
Think about this passage from Psalm 46:1-3: "God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging."
Look at what you turn to in times of trouble. Is it to God? or to something else? God has promised to provide strength in weakness (2 Cor. 12:9) and He is trustworthy. Worship Him. If you have questions about this, feel free to email anyone on staff at Copperhill.
What we run to in times of trouble reveals where our heart truly is. Do we run to the true God, or to a finite, temporal god (money, work, family) when the pressure is on? There's nothing wrong with family or work or money, but when they take the place of God, they become idols. What we naturally turn to in difficulty shows what we value the most, and therefore, what we worship. Becoming more like Christ means that there is a continual process of amputating the idols (remnant sin) that are present in our lives and to instead worship God in every area of life. This is a lifelong process that will not be perfectly complete until our ultimate glorification on the last day.
Think about this passage from Psalm 46:1-3: "God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging."
Look at what you turn to in times of trouble. Is it to God? or to something else? God has promised to provide strength in weakness (2 Cor. 12:9) and He is trustworthy. Worship Him. If you have questions about this, feel free to email anyone on staff at Copperhill.
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