Our Daily Bread
Stand Firm
As our final project for a high school earth science class, a
friend and I built a stream table. With extensive help from my father,
we built a long plywood box with a hinge in the middle. Then we lined it
with plastic and filled it with sand. At one end we attached a hose. At
the other end was a drainage hole. After assembling all of it, we
raised one end of the stream table, turned on the water, and watched as
it created a path directly to the hole at the other end. The next part
of the experiment was to place a rock in the stream and watch how it
changed the path of the water.
This project taught me as much about life as it did about science. I
learned that I can’t change the direction things are going if I’m on the
bank of the river. I have to step into the stream of life and stand
there to divert the flow. That’s what Jesus did. The Bible refers to
salvation as a rock (2 Sam. 22:47; Ps. 62:2,6-7), and the apostle Paul
clarifies that Christ is that Rock (1 Cor. 10:4). God placed Jesus in
the stream of history to change its course.
When we remain steadfast in Christ, abounding in the work of the
Lord, God uses us to change the course of history through acts of
obedience that turn others to Him.
The Master is seeking a harvest
In lives He’s redeemed by His blood;
He seeks for the fruit of the Spirit
And works that will glorify God.
—H.S. Lehman. © 1924 H. S. Lehman
In lives He’s redeemed by His blood;
He seeks for the fruit of the Spirit
And works that will glorify God.
—H.S. Lehman. © 1924 H. S. Lehman
Be sure to put your feet in the right place, then stand firm. —Abraham Lincoln
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