Set in Stone

September 26

Some things are set in stone. The archaeological record for example, is a message to us from time immemorial that affirms to us many significant facts about the planet where we make our home. Though we cannot begin to presume we have interpreted its entire message correctly, surely some of it is accurately understood by those who study it.

When we deign to grasp the magnitude of the far-off galaxies that swirl in space in distant proximity to ours, we can speculate about just how far away they are, and how many planets are included in them, and how conducive they might be to life as we know it, but until man has actually set his foot on one of them, we cannot know with certainty.

Yet the God who holds it all in the hollow of His hand has ordained that we are indeed cognizant of one very remarkable truth. Because He loves us, He doesn’t want us to miss it. Because He has gone to such an extraordinary measure to extend this truth to us, Jesus doesn’t want us to dismiss it. Because of its extreme importance, Christ’s mortal enemy has set about to obscure it more than any other truth that can be gleaned from archaeological or scientific or astronomical evidence.

In Acts 2:36, we are told clearly, “…know this truly: God has made Jesus, the Man you nailed to the cross, both Lord and Christ.” This one reality, among all the facts we know with certainty and those we think we know, is set in stone. For time and eternity, the reality of Jesus as our only Savior and Lord is established. Whether men appropriate this truth or dismiss it as unworthy of their acceptance, it is and it will be, changeless through the eons of eternity. It is the one certainty we may cling to when all else is mere presumption.