Beware the Rocks!!!

"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart." (Jeremiah 29:11-13 NIV)

In a time when we are literally deluged with troubles and adversity on one hand, and technology and luxurious living on the other, we are caught in a vice-grip of life in this world's system. The cacaphony of Sirens' songs is deafening, each enticement calling us to break apart upon a different rocky shore each day. The only voice that we can trust, the only invitation that we may safely heed is the voice of the LORD. All others will eventually end in ruin.

We live in a world that is led by the media. Whether it is television, where we must keep track of who is winning what "reality" contest, or the world of music, where we must keep up with the latest arrangement of recycled ideas, we are ignoring the one voice from Heaven that has our best interests at heart. We search the Internet for the answers to every question, while God awaits our questions which seek true direction and wisdom. While the Internet seems to be the shiny and miraculous medium that knows all things, there is only one God who truly knows all things. If we turn in desperation to the Internet for answers to life's deepest questions, we are in reality searching for gems in a massive garbage-strewn landfill, filled with the incestuous and polluted knowledge of the ignorant and of the deceptive.

There is one God whose plan is to prosper us and to not harm us. There is one LORD whose desire is to give us a hope and a future in His Kingdom. However, we will only find Him when we shun the Sirens of this world and turn our ships toward heaven. The truth is that a ship can only head in one direction at a time. We cannot seek the world and the Kingdom of God concurrently; no, we must choose in which direction we will sail. We will seek God and find Christ Jesus when we seek Him with all of our hearts. It is in the hand of Jesus where we will find Him holding our hope and future. He has safely hidden our every plan and every provision in the being of Jesus Christ. As we seek Him, His Kingdom, and His righteousness, we will find all that we will ever need and want, as we seek Him will all of our hearts (Matthew 6:33, Jeremiah 20:13).

Beware the rocks! Heed the voice of Heaven!