The hymn goes "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."
Today there was another earthquake. And one in China too. Their's was physical, mine elsewhere. How often do I, and probably everyone, place our hope, our confidence, our reliance on people and/or circumstances? I too easily believe that everything will always go right. Things get going good and I assume things will continue. It never seems to work like that. I think God constantly rattles the ground I build on when I start feeling secure in people and things, rather than on Him. I lean on Jesus, but I don't think I always wholly lean on Him. So God lets other ground I've built on sink some so that I will move my hope back on to Him wholly.
I wonder if I will ever get that completely right, or will I always rely more than I should on circumstances and people? I am sure God will keep working on me.
