Midwest floods in 1993 swamped thousands of acres of land, and multiple cities, along the Mississippi and its tributaries. Engineers worked tirelessly to save further catastrophe by bolstering levees built to protect human habitations from the Mighty Flow.
At times they had to risk undermining the levee by moving soil from its base to its crest. They knew it could compromise the entire structure. But felt the need to risk it to prevent an overflow that would breech the levee. Sometimes they won. Sometimes the river won. God's love undergirds human life and never fails to protect it. Satan never wins unless we turn from God to devices of our own manufacture, thinking we can save ourselves without God. God's solid foundation stands FIRM. It ENDURES and offers FAIL-SAFE infrastructure for life. But only HE! Those who disregard God's will invariably, somewhere in life, by some circumstance or experience, find life eroding beneath them. Thomas Andrews, builder of the RMS Titanic discovered that. On the dock at Liverpool he had ironclad confidence that not even God could sink the ship. Only to find on April 14, 1912, that an iceberg could and did. When he knew the inevitable—not long after hitting the frozen ice—he retired to the smoking lounge. All he had worked to achieve; all the mastery of shipbuilding that he put into the giant vessel; all the pleasure he promised himself and his company after a successful voyage—all IRREPERABLY damaged and hopelessly lost in one brief instant of collision with an object he never contemplated could interfere with his quest for fame and riches. Once it did, it left his massive ship DOOMED and himself a hopeless victim. A steward later found him standing in the lounge, looking AFT.... He asked if Mr. Andrews wouldn't try "to make a go for it." No answer. He stood arms crossed, staring AFT...devastated...while his DREAMBOAT sank beneath him. Without God's love in our life the same will happen to us...sooner or later...in an accident, a disease, a business failure, a broken marriage, rebellious children—fill in what could happen to you that you never anticipated, and for which you haven't developed a defense by faith in God. We will all, in our passage through life, find storms breaking over us, beating against us. Nevertheless, with God's love as the Mighty Pedestal on which we build life, NOTHING can ever shatter us, weaken us, defeat us, or find us so dispirited we fold our arms and quit because life became too hard, too mysterious, too awesome, TOO MUCH!
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