The late Harold Wilson, former Prime Minister and leader of the U.K.
Labour Party said, “A week is a long time in politics”. The last week of
October must have been so for the Eurozone leaders when they met in Brussels to
find a solution to the Euro crisis. Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor said,
“If the Euro fails, Europe fails.” There
is an inevitability about her words and possibly caused her fellow national leaders
to pull back from the brink of total collapse. They agreed a bailout plan
initially for Greece but also for other countries that are tottering such as
Spain, Portugal, Italy and Ireland, who also have major debt problems. Many newspaper financial commentators are sceptical about how this plan
is going to be implemented in time, they have heard euphemisms before but they
want to hear words that will work. One lady said that they were just kicking
the can down the road. We understand her words to mean that at some point in
time someone has got to pick the can up, though battered and damaged, it has
got to be addressed, there is no point in kicking it further down Debt Avenue.
When I worked with our Gospel Van in Cornwall, it was said of the
weather, that if it rained for two weeks there would be floods and if it didn’t
rain for two weeks there would be a drought! It was inevitable! It always puzzled me as to why
an area that has so much rainfall, could not conserve it in reservoirs for the
influx of tourists that can treble the population of the county when the sun
shines. Management of the earth’s resources is vital as the world’s population
tops seven billion people and over one half of them live in poverty and with no
clean water supply. Every human being is dependant on water, our bodies are
seventy percent water and we cannot survive many days without it. In many places in Africa they don’t kick their cans down the road, they
carry them to a point where clean water is available, fill them up, put the
vessel on their head and carry it home, sometimes at a great distance. Share Africa is a Christian Charity that is helping village communities
in different ways, paying for books and the education of children. They also
have a well sunk in the village and pump the water up into a storage tank for
families to draw their water from and save them a long walk to the river. Other
charities do similar things and are commendable for their involvement.
If you jump off a cliff with nothing to control your rate of descent,
you will according to gravity go downwards, accelerating at 32 feet per second,
per second, it is inevitable that you will hit the ground, damaged or dead.
If you hold a live power line in
your hand with bare ends and if you touch those ends together, either a fuse
will blow or you will suffer a shock that could kill you.
If you hold a gun to your head with a chamber full of bullets and
squeeze the trigger, it is inevitable that you will die. You do not need me to
illustrate incidents that are life threatening, it is common sense to avoid
such situations.
Allow me to ask you a question and in so doing I am not insulting your
intelligence. If you can reason that things that are fatal must be avoided, why
are you choosing to ignore the warnings in the Bible about your
agnostic/atheistic position and where you will spend eternity?
It is inevitable that a person who believes that Jesus Christ is their
Lord and Saviour will spend their eternity in Heaven, whereas an unbeliever
will be in Hell. I can almost hear the shouts of disapproving readers, so I
will tell you what the Apostle John said in ch.3:36, “He
that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the
Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.” That
is conclusive isn’t it? These are not my words they are God’s words and we
should sit up and take notice. It is futile to play the ‘good-works-card’ to
deceive oneself into thinking, I’m all right, I’ve never done any one any harm,
I always pay my way and never steel anything from anybody. I’m all right, I can
carry on living as I do and when it comes to the end, if there is a Heaven,
then I will go there because God would never send me to Hell.
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| Is the direction your life is taking leading to an inevitable outcome? |
Jesus 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.” If a person builds
their life on the shifting sands of the philosophies of men, that life will
catastrophically fall, it is inevitable. The life that is standing on the Rock
Christ Jesus will never flounder but will stand for all eternity.
I have heard Anguillians call their island, ‘The Rock’. People from other places may not have heard that but to folk that live there it means something to them. The Lord Jesus Christ is also called the Rock and to those who believe, He is the most precious person alive. Augustus Toplady wrote, ‘Rock of Ages, cleft for me, let me hide myself in thee; let the water and the blood, from thy wounded side which flowed, be of sinthe double cure; save from wrath and make me pure.’
In the wilderness the children of Israel drank of water from the
smitten rock, Paul said in 1 Corinthians 10:4 “And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.”
The soul that stands on the Rock Christ Jesus is saved and satisfied,
both are inevitable. Why? Because He said so!
God bless.
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