Today in church we sang, “My Hope is Built on
Nothing Less”
“All other ground is sinking sand…”
This verse keeps echoing in my mind…
There are so many things that God is teaching me lately…it’s hard to get them all out
of my head and onto paper…since I feel like I am still in the middle of
processing all of them…
One thing I can share though is how God has
been showing me more and more that He is all I really need.
I have a bad habit of putting a lot of my
faith in things and people…or even in my ideas
of people…even when I know that that desire for fulfillment in me is only Christ-shaped and HE is the ONLY ONE who can ever satisfy it.
God has been teaching me a lot lately that I
need to empty myself out of so many
things…of my ideas about Him and
other people and situations and even myself…and how I need to just look to Him
for everything.
“My
hope is built on nothing less…”
In my devotional – I’m in the book of Job. On
the surface, Job seems to be one of those books where it feels long and
tedious…and it seems like maybe the author could have shortened it to about 2
or 3 chapters and the point would have been made quite clear…without all of
that back and forth…but reading it bit by bit…it is such a realistic book…not
that the other books in the Bible aren’t…but I mean – it’s so
relatable…hopefully you get what I’m saying…I don’t feel like explaining it any
further…
In Job 8 verse 15 Bildad says:
“He trusts in his house, but it does not
stand;
He holds fast to it, but it does not endure.”
I have a lot of
insecurities. And lately – they have been terrifying me. Because I see how I
have allowed them to mold my attitude and outlook on certain people and
situations. I have allowed them to take over my reality on certain things and
completely distort the truth. Even if they originally were
brought to me as completely logical uncertainties…I have entertained them to
the point where they have plagued me in some areas of my life – turning me into
not only insecure but paranoid.
It wasn’t difficult for me to allow them to do this – since I
wasn’t placing my faith in God in the first place…
“When
all around my soul gives way,
He
then is all my hope and stay…”
It’s beautiful – how He loves us to the point where He has
created a desire in us so great that
only HE can fill it.
I want to empty myself out to the point where
I am completely blank.
All of my fears and hurts and insecurities…all
of my ideas and thoughts about people and situations, whether past, present, or
future…all of my ideas about who I am or who other people are…I want to be
completely rid of it all…
Because by holding on to all of those things…I’m
holding on to the potential of more fear and hurt and insecurities…
It seems like emptying myself of all of this
would come as a little scary…but in truth – it excites me so much. Because I know
that when everything else is gone – God is
there. And He will always be
there. And when I only look to Him – He has the chance to do whatever He wants with my life.
And I can think of nothing more beautiful.
My
hope is built on nothing less
Than
Jesus’ blood and righteousness;
I
dare not trust the sweetest frame,
But
wholly lean on Jesus’ name.
On
Christ the solid rock I stand;
All
other ground is sinking sand.
All
other ground is sinking sand.
When
darkness veils His lovely face,
I
rest on His unchanging grace;
In
every high and stormy gale
My
anchor holds within the veil.
On
Christ the solid rock I stand;
All
other ground is sinking sand.
All
other ground is sinking sand.
His
oath His covenant and blood
Support
me in the ‘whelming flood:
When
all around my soul gives way,
He
then is all my hope and stay.
On
Christ the solid rock I stand;
All
other ground is sinking sand.
All
other ground is sinking sand.
When
He shall come with trumpet sound,
O
may I then in him be found.
Dressed
in his righteousness alone,
Faultless
to stand before his throne.
On
Christ the solid rock I stand;
All
other ground is sinking sand.
All
other ground is sinking sand.
