Building on the Foundation

You may have noticed some discussion in the news lately about illegal immigration, and how to enforce immigration laws. Is it appropriate to build walls on the border to keep people out? To search for, arrest, and deport illegal immigrants by any means necessary? Now, I tend not to concern myself much with politics these days, not because I don’t have opinions, but because I don’t believe that politics offers any real or lasting solutions. The only real solution to anyone’s problems is to turn to God, humble oneself before Him, and obey Him. The Bible warns against putting trust in human leaders: “Do not put your trust in princes, nor in a son of man, in whom there is no help. His spirit departs, he returns to his earth; in that very day his plans perish. Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God” (Psa. 146:3-5).  So any nation (or individual) that attempts to fix its problems by political means, without turning to God first, is doome...

Can God do whatever He wants? It’s a fair question, and it’s a question that most Christians have asked at one time or another. We're curious about God, and we find the idea of unlimited anything a little hard to fathom, and in the case of unlimited power, even a little uncomfortable.  We like God to operate a bit like a machine, where you put in one action and get the exact equivalent action out every single time.  A bit like a vending machine where you put in your quarter, push the number two button, and out pops a Kit-Kat bar.  We tend to define God in our own terms and write His Character in our own image, but that’s always a mistake. God doesn’t fit into a nice little box of doctrine, and it certainly cannot be said of Him, “ I know God and this isn’t what He would do, ” concerning anything He has not directly told us about His character.  In fact, much of the book of Job is dedicated to three men who thought they knew God and how His thought process worked, and...