stability through stress...

have you noticed that satan's temptation is always to get you to question GOD's word?

the first temptation: genesis 3.1 (niv), satan asks eve, did GOD really say you couldn't eat of that? he's getting eve to question did GOD really say you shouldn't do... today satan doesn't tempt us that way because that's black and white and people today don't live in the black and whites. now, satan has put a little twist on the temptation. the phrase i hear over and over again is “that's your interpretation.”

when you go up to a stop sign, how do you interpret that? how many ways can you interpret s-t-o-p?

the bible says, “don't have sex outside of marriage” then you don't have sex outside of marriage. but i love him and i know that GOD loves me and wants me to be happy. no.

the bible says every seventh day you take a day off then every seventh day you ought to take a day off. there's no interpretation needed there. it's real black and white. the fact is GOD's word has not changed.

matthew 5.24 (niv), everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.

JESUS said there are two ways to build a house. you can build it on sand or you can build it on a rock. if you don't build it on a solid foundation the whole building will eventually tilt and fall over. you've got to have a solid foundation for your life.

and GOD is saying that if you build your life on the current fad, the current therapy, the current growth group, whatever is being read in cosmo – you name it – then you're building on shifting sands and you're going to have an unstable life when the changes of life come and those changes are inevitable. if you want to have stability when the stresses of life come on your life you've got to build it on something that never changes.

just a thought from the front porch…