The One Sure Foundation

For reading and meditation- Hebrews 12:14-29

"Life," said the writer Oswald Chambers, "is more tragic than orderly." How true those words seem when considered in relation to the events taking place in the world today. And, in an age when the kingdoms of this world are being shaken, how thankful we ought to be that we belong to a kingdom whose foundations can never be moved. That is the unimpeachable promise presented in our text today - a promise that is to be the theme of this series.

The letter to the Hebrews was written to help Jewish (or Hebrew) Christians see the superiority of Christ over every other person or order in the universe. It seems that some of these Christians had become a little alarmed when they discovered that a great deal of their ancient Jewish heritage was about to pass away. The writer to the Hebrews points out, however, that the shaking of the old is but the prelude to the new, and he encourages them to establish their faith upon foundations that cannot be moved.

This verse, given to the Jewish Christians to steady them in a time of testing and confusion, is a verse that we ourselves must hold on to at this present time when all around us the kingdoms of this world and the godless civilisations they have built up are being shaken. By "kingdom" I mean any society not founded on values that are in harmony with the moral design of the universe. That society may not be a kingdom in the strict sense of the word but if it does not stand for absolute truth and justice it will shake. Where now are the great empires of Assyria , Greece and Rome ? Gone, for they were built on shakeable foundations. It means everything to know that there is one unshakable kingdom.

Heavenly Father, amid earth's shakeable kingdoms I stand with my feet in the one unshakeable kingdom. Passing events cannot shake me, for in You I am unshakeable. I am so deeply thankful Amen.