Trust In Your Creator

Aug. 18, 2014 Monday Message:

 “Jesus Christ never changes! He is the same yesterday, today and forever.” Heb. 13:8 CEV

Nothing on this earth truly lasts. For example, the minute we put up a building, the weather begins taking its toll.

My family built a new home, but that was twenty-plus years ago. To me, it still feels new, because we built it. But I am incorrect – the house has aged considerably!

In recent years, we remodeled a deteriorating kitchen, upgraded a bathroom, and replaced a roof due to hail. The cracked steps coming into the house are an embarrassment, and the cedar-wood on the deck is starting to rot. This year, we’re replacing windows on the upper-level. When we finish all of this, it will be a just like a new house again, but only for a couple of years.

There are potholes in roads, crumbling bricks in buildings, and rusting steel holds up our bridges. Nothing that mankind constructs matters for very long.

People don’t last either. Most don’t live much past their 80^th birthday; women a little longer, men not quite as long. 90 is unusual, and 100 is extraordinary, but that’s it.

The only thing that lasts forever is God; Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and God’s Holy Word, the Bible.

You can’t count on things of this world, because nothing lasts. Instead, place your faith, hope and trust in something of substance, the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end.

Trust something that lasts - trust your creator.

Norton Lawellin

Jesus in the City Fellowship (JICF) meets every Sunday at 10:30am in the North end (gym) of the Oliver Ministry Building, 2647 Bloomington Ave., Minneapolis. This week, Aug. 24, Dan Pilla opens up Acts Ch. 6.