In the South Pacific Ocean, off the eastern coast of Australia, is the tiny Falcon Island that seems to play hide-and-seek. In some years this island can be seen, but in other years it is hard to find. Fifteen years ago it was a mound rising thirty feet above the water but today it has sunk beneath the water.
When this island was discovered in 1865, explorers thought it was a reef. Thirty years later it had risen fifty feet. Then it almost disappeared from sight. Twenty-five years ago it was a peak six hundred feet high. Now it has vanished!
The secret of the island’s ups and downs is simple. It is a volcano and sometimes explosions force the island up and add to its peak. When the volcano is quiet, however, the ocean waves lash at the peak, wearing it down and covering it. That is what has happened to the island today.
I can almost hear some of our young readers say, “I surely wouldn’t want to live on an island like that!” — and neither would I! And yet how many today are building their hopes for eternity on just such a shifting island — on a foundation that will not hold!
Dear reader, are you building on the solid Rock — the Rock, Christ Jesus for TIME and ETERNITY? Have you trusted Him as your Saviour and your eternal Resting Place? If not, you are on a sinking foundation that will one day slip down to hell forever!
We often sing:
“Let all around my soul give way,
He still abides my lasting stay.
On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand;
All other ground is sinking sand.”
We urge you to put your trust in the Lord Jesus TODAY!
ML 12/09/1956