The Solid Rock

Sound the alarms. Blow the whistles. Ring the bells. Turn on the sirens. Let the horns blow. Disaster is on the way. It’s no joke. It’s going to happen. Everything has been set in motion for a collision of galaxies. That’s right. Our own Milky Way Galaxy and the neighboring Adromeda Galaxy will collide. Two billion years from now. I know it’s so; I read it today.
Two billion years is a long time. That’s two thousand million years. I suppose I can wait a few years before worrying about it every night.
Jesus warned us about stacking up earthly belongings and putting all our hopes in them. He reminded us that everything eventually rusts, decays or is in some manner consumed by natural processes, but he didn’t mention the collision of galaxies, perhaps because we will all be gone before that happens, or maybe because the earth itself will be destroyed before the galaxies collide.
The Bible does predict the destruction of our world by fire. Peter is the one who wrote about it: “..the heavens will pass away with a terrible noise, and the very elements themselves will disappear in fire..” (2 Peter 3:10 NLT).
Peter continued, “Since everything around us is going to be destroyed like this, what holy and godly lives you should live..” (2 Peter 3:11 NLT). Then he said, “..we are looking forward to the new heavens and new earth he has promised, a world filled with God’s righteousness” (2 Peter 3:13 NLT).
Since in one way or another, everything you see around you will someday be gone, why not build your life on the “Solid Rock,” Jesus. As the song declares, “On Christ the Solid Rock I stand; all other ground is sinking sand.”