November 14

Man is always trying to ‘build a better mousetrap.’ Creativity and invention are the signature of modern western civilization. An enormous amount of progress has been made in the last 100 years or so. In fact, the world has been technologically revolutionized since the beginning of the Twentieth Century.

As long as man continues to employ his creativity toward unlocking the secrets of the mind of Christ, in Whom is hidden all the knowledge and wisdom of our Triune God, the Lord will continue to allow His supreme creation the joy of unlocking the secrets of the universe.

But, there is one thing that cannot be improved upon. Man’s inventiveness can hold no sway over the one thing that is settled in Heaven, and that is the plan of salvation. We know that when the Triune God conferred with Himself in eons past regarding the fall of His beloved creation, man, He decreed that Jesus would come as a man, live a sinless life, and pay the penalty for the sins of all mankind (Revelation 13:8).

I Corinthians 3:11 affirms the veracity of the assertion that Jesus is man’s only salvation. Here it states clearly, “For no other foundation can any man lay than that which was laid, which is Jesus Christ.” No matter how ingenious man may be, no matter how many new ideas he has or how many new gadgets he develops to make life on this planet better, there is no other way to build life for eternity than upon the shed blood of the God-Man who gave Himself for us.