Firm Foundation

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FIRM FOUNDATION
Prov 10:25
25 When the storm has swept by, the wicked are gone,
but the righteous stand firm forever.
NIV
Another comparison between the wicked and the righteous is here for me to deal with once more. How many ways can God spell this out? Should I see this as simply a storm, a hurricane as the Hebrew implies as how the wicked are so violent in their passion for sin? Perhaps that is true but as violent as they are in the pursuit of self-interest and the pure desire of self-satisfaction, with that same violence will God as a whirlwind descend upon them. They end will be with this kind of whirlwind and they will in fact be swept away and throw into the lake of burning sulfur. Now I know it does not have to be like that, they could repent and accept Jesus Christ in order to escape that end, but alas I think they refuse and this is why they are referred to as the wicked. I know some of them and they are kind and loving people, appearing for all practical purposes good people without the evil intent of those really bad individuals, yet because of their refusal to accept Jesus as Lord and Savior they are deemed wicked or morally wrong. Now on the other side of this illustration stand the righteous. Again I must admit I am not righteous in and of myself, but only because of Jesus. I stand on the firm foundation of God himself. My feet are on solid ground because they are planted in the word of God. I am like a tree planted by the stream of living water and I obtain all the nourishment I need for life from Jesus Christ, the spring of living water. The life I gain is not temporal nor will it be swept away by any storm which comes my way. It matters not what kind of whirlwind assaults me, I am firmly planted forever upon the truth of God. Even when I fail him, I have not lost my footing or my right standing with him, because of Jesus. I know I am not perfect, and I am not able to stand on my own. I need the righteousness of Christ as my foundation for a firm standing forever in the everlasting presence of God.