"What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That the Lord hath founded Zion, and the poor of His people shall trust in it." Isaiah 14:32
Another kingdom is destroyed, another city of man made low, and when that city's messengers inquire on why, they discover that they had been assaulting the city of God, which can never be moved, which all foes breaks against like waves against the rocks.
St. Augustine wrote The City of God after the panic that ensued from the collapse of the Roman Empire. His point was this: there are two cities in the world--the city of man and the city of God. The city of man will come and go, it would rise and fall, changing as often as the wind. The city of God, however, is eternal, and unchangeable, and it is the only city that matter.
Abraham was said to have been looking "for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God." (Hebrews 11:10) God's kingdom, His ruling authority that is and that is to come, is an unalterable fact. Like His will, you either bend to it, or be broken by it. If you choose the city of man, you will be disappointed again and again and again as your hopes are crushed as often as the city is. Only in the city of God, in His will, is their hope and refuge. To cling to anything else is to be left behind as life and future pass you by, and you are left to the nothingness.
Another kingdom is destroyed, another city of man made low, and when that city's messengers inquire on why, they discover that they had been assaulting the city of God, which can never be moved, which all foes breaks against like waves against the rocks.
St. Augustine wrote The City of God after the panic that ensued from the collapse of the Roman Empire. His point was this: there are two cities in the world--the city of man and the city of God. The city of man will come and go, it would rise and fall, changing as often as the wind. The city of God, however, is eternal, and unchangeable, and it is the only city that matter.
Abraham was said to have been looking "for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God." (Hebrews 11:10) God's kingdom, His ruling authority that is and that is to come, is an unalterable fact. Like His will, you either bend to it, or be broken by it. If you choose the city of man, you will be disappointed again and again and again as your hopes are crushed as often as the city is. Only in the city of God, in His will, is their hope and refuge. To cling to anything else is to be left behind as life and future pass you by, and you are left to the nothingness.
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