I am looking at a picture in a popular magazine: An old man is sitting on a chair with his laptop. He looks to me worn out and tired. That is nothing spectacular, a man sitting on a chair. But the chair is not standing on the floor, but on top of a lot of piled up 50 cents pieces. What a picture, I am thinking to myself. But as I continue to flick through pages of the magazine, because it is a long article, and there, what is that? I see even a better picture: A bent over old man with a hat is standing on top of a lot of piled up 100 Dollar notes. He seems to have something wrong with his knee. It looks as if he is nursing it.

What a foundation! What a shaky foundation. That is what I am thinking.

In church we sing beautiful hymns. The hymn: “Standing, standing, standing on the promises of God my Savior; standing, standing, I am standing on the promises of God,” is one of them. The author and composer of this hymn is Russell Kelso Carter.

One of the promises in the Bible, the WORD OF GOD, is First Corinthians 3:11. Please click on the verse and read it.