High Rock Makes a Good Foundation

© 2015 by Tom Boynton (editing by Kathy Boynton)

This past week my wife and I received a phone call from our daughter. We had just returned home from our grandson’s birthday party at their house. She told us that, shortly after we left, floodwaters from heavy rains had trapped them in their home and rapidly flooded the bottom floor of their house.

Though we are extremely grateful to the Lord for sparing the lives of our daughter, son-in-law, and all of their children, others in that flood, died.

In floods, people seek high ground for refuge. Jesus, used this to illustrate the importance of finding refuge in Him as the spiritual rock foundation for your eternal soul. He said,

“Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it” (Matthew 7:24-27).

God used Jonah the prophet as an illustration that God the Son, Jesus Christ, would come to suffer the floods of God’s wrath for the sins of His people.

“For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me” (Jonah 2:3).

Jesus, Himself, made it clear that this was, indeed, a picture of the redemptive price He would pay for His people on the cross of Calvary.

“For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth” (Matthew 12:40).

God says that, after death, each person will face God.

“… it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:” (Hebrews 9:27).

Will Christ be your rock foundation, protecting you from His flood of wrath, or will you be eternally destroyed and bear God’s wrath, all by yourself, forever?

 

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