Lent Day 6
Lent Day 6
Hymn “My Hope is Built”
Southern Baptist Seminary “my hope is built ” Norton Hall Band (youtube.com)
Favorite Line: “On Christ the Solid Rock I Stand”
Why: “easy- no words to explain”
This is a response or something similar comes up on a few of these submissions and it makes me laugh every time. Not because it is a bad response or anything like that, but because I can almost hear that person giving me that look like: Lee, the answer is obvious. How dense are you? Like there is no need for an example because their favorite line is pretty straightforward in how awesome and important it is to our faith walks. And if I am being honest, I get it. This line is pretty great and doesn’t need a lot of explaining. In the season of Lent, it does, however, force us to ask ourselves the question: are we building on Christ as our foundation?
As I think about the Christian experience, I believe that many of us are actually pretty decent at standing on the solid rock when the storms of life are raging. We stand firm on Christ when everything else is getting washed away. When life is not going great it’s much easier for us to jump upon the solid rock. It is much harder to do that when life seems to be going pretty well. When life is going well, I often think we tend to start standing on those sinking sands. Because, at the moment, they are not sinking. At the moment, life is going pretty good standing on our wealth, health, social status, family, friends, retirement accounts, our own pride and abilities, and everything else we build upon. But that doesn’t work, does it? Because we don’t know when those sands will start sinking again. We don’t know when the storms of life will start to rage. This isn’t a song about picking and choosing when to jump for the solid rock. It’s not a game of musical chairs in which you dance around on the sinking sand and, at the last moment, jump to the solid rock. Or at least that’s not how we should treat the solid rock. No, the call is whether life is terrible or amazing to rely only on the solid rock.
So the question once again is are you building on Christ the solid rock? Right now, no matter how life is going. And if not we better get started.
Grace and peace,
Pastor Lee