"And now, my sons, remember, remember that it is upon the rock of our Redeemer, who is Christ, the Son of God, that ye must build your foundation; that when the devil shall send forth his mighty winds, yea, his shafts in the whirlwind, yea, when all his hail and his mighty storm shall beat upon you, it shall have no power over you to drag you down to the gulf of misery and endless wo, because of the rock upon which ye are built, which is a sure foundation, a foundation whereon if men build they cannot fall."
Helaman 5:12
There are some good things here that seem worth pondering... one is that if we build on God's foundation, that Satan can't have power to drag us into misery. I like that idea both of being able to withstand his power... and the fact that the specific protection that God offers us is *happiness* despite Satan's storms... because enduring isn't enough. God wants us to live. :)
I also love the idea in the last verse, saying that if we lay the right kind of foundation, in Christ, that we "cannot" fall. That's pretty confident wording, and I like the idea of feeling that confident in the Lord that we don't have to worry.
Today, let's work on establishing our foundation in the Lord, so that when the storms come we can not only survive, but even smile in the midst of the wind and hail... because we trust God and know that he will always be the strength that we don't have.
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