The floods are coming upon the world, upon the churches, upon families, upon individuals. The waves and the seas are roaring, so to speak. Everything is being shaken.

The values and expectations to which we once were accustomed are shifting and changing. Surely the Lord has founded the world and its inhabitants on the seas and the waters, on that which is unstable.

Abraham looked for a city that has foundations. How did he know about the new Jerusalem?

Thoughtful people, people of integrity, are not pleased with a world that is constantly shifting and changing. They like to have their life, their home, their family, their moral values, solid and unchanging. These are the builders who create and hold the world together so it is not given over to bread and circus, as in ancient Rome.

But where can they find a foundation to build on? Utopian dreamers throughout the centuries—philosophers, teachers, statesmen—have advanced plans to bring mankind to security and peace. The Lord Jesus told us we would have wars and other problems. Who has proven correct?

Democracy is supposed to be the answer to social oppression. Democracy is producing social anarchy as self-seeking people fill the power vacuum.

Today there are politicians, teachers, psychologists who are promising a bright new world. People never seem to learn! Their well-intentioned schemes will lead only to more anarchy, more poverty, more distress and anguish as is true today in so much of the world.

Indeed a bright new world is coming but only through Jesus Christ. The Kingdom of God is at hand.

How about you? Has the shaking caught up to you? Are you wondering why your tidy home—perhaps a Christian home—has suddenly been torn asunder? You have been a church attender and have tried to interest your children in the things of God. Now your husband is ready to run off with another believer. One son is living with an older woman. Another son is going to court because of involvement in a gang shooting. Your daughter is on drugs.

Your world has come to an end, or so it seems.

Listen carefully! The Lord Jesus sits as King of the flood. His power and love have no end. Bring your problems before Him. You do not need to know any religious formulas. Cry out, "Help, Lord!" He—the living God—will bow the heavens and come down. The foundations of the earth will be revealed. The valleys of the sea will be uncovered. The clouds will be the dust of His feet.

He will give you peace in the midst of your monumental problems. As you follow Him, He will bring light out of darkness, order from chaos. That which seemed to have no solution will suddenly resolve. Little by little you and your loved ones will be placed on an unshakable foundation. Best of all you will come to know the Lord. And this is the greatest gift of all for you will take that knowledge past the grave into the new world of righteousness.

You thought He had forgotten you. But all this has happened that you might pass from the ranks of those who have heard about God to those who know the Lord.