Shifting Sand

I don't know about you, but I think it's a lot more fun to play in the sand than on a rock. The sand has a great texture, especially when it's cool on a hot day. You can do a lot of fun things with sand - My children like to construct towers and build walls with shovels and buckets; they also enjoy playing with animals in the sand, burying and finding them, pretending they are lost and found. But when it comes to the end of the day and playtime is over, we don't stay in the sand. We go inside our house, and there's a comfort there. We are "safe" when we are out of the sand and in our home, often subconsciously knowing that it built on a solid foundation.

After teaching a hard truth about unsaved people who, thinking they are saved, will cry out to Him on the last day, "Lord, Lord," Jesus tells the parable in Matthew 7:24-27 of the man who builds his house on the rock compared to the man who builds his house on the sand. The message is this: Trust ad obey; there's no other way. Here are the lyrics to a couple of songs that speak to the reality of building our homes on the solid foundation of God's Word.

Shifting Sand by Caedmon's Call

Sometimes I believe all the lies
So I can do the things I should despise
And every day I am swayed
By whatever is on my mind
I hear it all depends on my faith
So I'm feeling precarious
The only problem I have with these mysteries
Is they're so mysterious
And like a consumer I've been thinking
If I could just get a bit more
More than my 15 minutes of faith,
Then I'd be secure

My faith is like shifting sand
Changed by every wave
My faith is like shifting sand
So I stand on grace

I've begged you for some proof
For my Thomas eyes to see
A slithering staff, a leperous hand
And lions resting lazily
A glimpse of your back-side glory
And this soaked altar going ablaze
But you know I've seen so much
I explained it away

My faith is like shifting sand
Changed by every wave
My faith is like shifting sand
So I stand on grace

Waters rose as my doubts reigned
My sand-castle faith, it slipped away
Found myself standing on your grace
It'd been there all the time

My faith is like shifting sand
Changed by every wave
My faith is like shifting sand
So I stand on grace
Stand on grace

My Hope is Built on Jesus (The Solid Rock) by Edward Mote (1834) and John Dykes (1860)

My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus’ blood and righteousness.
I dare not trust the sweetest frame,
But wholly trust in Jesus’ name.
On Christ the solid rock I stand,
All other ground is sinking sand. All other ground is sinking sand.

When darkness seems to hide His 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, His 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,
Oh may I then in Him be found.
Dressed in His righteousness alone,
Faultless to stand before the throne.
On Christ the solid rock I stand.
All other ground is sinking sand. All other ground is sinking sand.