"On Solid Ground"

"For thy mercy is great above the heavens: and thy truth reacheth unto the clouds." (Psalms 108:4)

 You might be wondering how on earth this title has anything to do with heavens and clouds; frankly, I am not quite there yet, I only know that God whispered that into my ear the second time I read it and thought about what it meant. Do you ever remember laying on your back outside and looking up at the clouds in the sky? It might have been quite some time ago; for me is was maybe 40 years or so. I remember a time when I looked for patterns in the clouds; I even remember drawing pictures that would try and illustrate some of the images that I remember seeing. There is absolutely no way that anyone can honestly deny that there is a Creator. If anyone tries, they are using nothing but lies and made up statistics to try and convince themselves that there is no God. When you look at the odds of anything they believe happening, oddly enough, they closely resemble the odds of the prophecies of the Bible being fulfilled; especially the odds of those prophecies concerning Jesus. The amazing difference between the two, is that one is truth and the other is a lie! Go figure! Can we not see why those that deny God are called fools? Yet, in the eyes of the wicked, anyone that holds onto the truth is considered a fool. Do you see the kind of stuff that we are up against? Smoke and mirrors, that's all it really is; there is nothing there to base any kind of argument on, so there is no reason to debate the truth of what they believe. C.S. Lewis was someone that it is told went from not believing to believing absolutely. A famous quote of his, is: "I believe in Christianity as I believe in the rising sun; not because I see it, but by it I can see all else." Does that sound familiar? In John 3:3, Jesus speaking to Nicodemus said, "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God." Another famous quote from C.S. Lewis, is one that speaks to what I have been sharing about for the last several weeks, maybe even off and on over the last fourteen plus years. If ever there was something that we could count on, it is that God's love and mercy is always there for us to grab hold of, even though we might not feel worthy or acceptable. "Though our feelings come and go, God's love for us does not." Aren't you glad you can't reach that...

"But God is so rich in mercy, and he loved us so much, that even though we were dead because of our sins, he gave us life when he raised Christ from the dead. (It is only by God's grace that you have been saved!) For he raised us from the dead along with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms because we are united with Christ Jesus. So God can point to us in all future ages as examples of the incredible wealth of his grace and kindness toward us, as shown in all he has done for us who are united with Christ Jesus." (Ephesians 2:4-7) NLT