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A Perilous Slant!

In the 1990's the "Leaning Tower of Pisa" was finally reopened to the public, after having been closed for several years. During that time, engineers completed a $25 million renovation project designed to stabilize the tower. They removed 110 tons of dirt, and reduced its famous lean by about sixteen inches. Why was this necessary? Because the tower has been tilting further and further away from vertical for hundreds of years, to the point that the top of the 185-foot tower was seventeen feet further south than the bottom, and Italian authorities were concerned that if nothing was done, it would soon collapse....

What was the problem? Bad design? Poor workmanship? An inferior grade of marble? No. The problem was what was underneath. The tower was built on the shifting sands of a former estuary. The soil was not stable enough to support a monument of this size. The tower had no firm foundation.

Spiritually speaking, I am reminded of the words of Jesus: "Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and DOES them, I will liken him to a wise man who built 
his house on the rock: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock.  But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and DOES NOT do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall" (Matthew 7:24-27).

All of us are "leaning" and on the verge of destruction due to our SIN as worldly forces continue to pull us down! (Romans 6:23)   Yet, because of Christ, we can be forgiven of our sin and placed upon Solid Ground.  "For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ" (1 Corinthians 3:11).  
In the words of Edward Mote:

"On Christ, the Solid Rock, I stand; ALL other ground is sinking sand."

Because Jesus is the Son of God AND because He died for us on the cross, IF  we will respond to him in faith (Acts 16:31), turn from sin in repentance (Acts 3:19), confess Him before men (Romans 10:9-10), and be baptized (immersed) for the forgiveness of sins (Acts 2:38), THEN  God will place US on a firm foundation.  To be sure that we remain on the Solid Rock, we must continue to HEAR and DO the commands of Christ (Matthew 7:24-27).

A life without Christ is on a perilous slant.  STOP!  Lean NO further! 
Build
YOUR life on the firm foundation of JESUS...

God bless you!

David A. Sargent / Minister

Church of Christ at Creekwood 
1901 Schillinger Rd. S.
Mobile, Alabama  36695

* Tom Moore, North Main Church of Christ, 823 N. Main Street , Malvern , AR 72104 .  See www.seekyefirst.us

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