I Love You Lord!

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There can scarcely be anything more frightening than an earthquake. With the ground shaking beneath your feet, you’re just waiting for the building to collapse around you and crush you beneath its rubble.

According to livescience.com, the strongest earthquake ever recorded occurred on May 22nd, 1960 in Valdivia, Chile. It registered a magnitude of 9.5 on the Richter Scale. Some 1,655 people died, thousands more were injured, and millions were left homeless. The quake triggered a tsunami that killed people as far away as Hawaii, Japan and the Philippines.

We expect the ground beneath our feet to be rock solid. And thankfully, for the most part, it is. Those cataclysmic seismic events are fortunately very rare. But not so rare are the cataclysmic events that shake our lives to the core.

Sometimes it’s because of things that happen to us. Other times, the troubles brew within for years before exploding like a volcano. As I look back on my life, I can point to three or four times where I wouldn’t wish the things that happened to me on my worst enemy. How about you?

What we need in those times, when the very foundations of our lives are shaking beneath our feet, when all that we’ve built for ourselves comes crashing down, threatening to crush the life out of us … is solid ground beneath our feet.

Psalm 18:1,2 I love you, LORD! You are my strength. The LORD is my Rock, my fortress, my place of safety. He is my God, the Rock I run to for protection. He is my shield; by his power I am saved. He is my hiding place high in the hills.

Let God be your Rock, too.

That’s His Word. Fresh … for you … today.