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We see the preciousness of God who knows our being before we were even contemplated to be created. Every limb was written in the book so that it would come forth and have a purpose within our lives, and the thoughts of God which created the blessings within our life cannot be counted, he said, they are as the sands of the sea. Therein is a prophecy that our Lord Himself spoke about. The blessings of God are like the sands of the sea. We see that in the world today so many people are worshipping the blessings of God and seeking those blessings as the sands of the sea which are not stable. There is no stability in that sand as the sea comes in and goes out. It is the same today. We should look beyond those blessings, look beyond that sand and see where they came from, and set out hearts on worshipping and praising He who has granted us those blessings. If we build our life and our future, or attempt to build them on the sands of the sea then we will suffer as our Lord taught while He was on this earth, and He gave us this warning in Matthew Chapter 7 verses 24-29 after He had given His words on how we should live our life. These words were all full of requests. They were advice to us. They were as it were like a catalogue of things we should look at day by day, for they are His words and we should never let them slip, and at the end of that teaching He taught these words, and we find written: “Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it. And it came to pass, when Jesus ended these sayings, the people were astonished at his doctrine: For he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.” We see our Lord made it very clear about these sands. So many blessings the Lord gives us, we should always remember to thank for them, not try to build our life on that sand, but build our life on the rock, our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and His Word. No matter what storm will come within our lives those blessings will eventually fail, but if we have built on the rock, the Word of Christ, then we will withstand those storms and be able to receive a greater strength of our inner being. We see we have to be careful that we do not allow our lives to shift, worshipping the blessings of God and not worshipping God the giver of those blessings. In the world today we see that happening. We see so many worshipping the creation and not the Creator. Great sums of money and research is going into trying to save this creation without one thought of asking the Creator to allow His hand to enter over it. We should not fall into the trap of building our lives on the blessings of God. The second great prophecy that was contained in those words was that when the Psalmist said that even when he wakens from his sleep he shall still be with me. We understand that has a two-part meaning, an earthly meaning and a spiritual meaning. The earthly meaning of course is that as we open our eyes in the morning the great blessing of God is still with us and we are still with Him, and we can call on Him to lead us through that day, but it has a greater spiritual meaning for us, and that is that when we close our eyes at the end of this life as it were in a sleep and when we open them we are still with God. He has promised us that He will never leave us or forsake us. That promise was given unto us by Christ on the cross for all Christians, “Today thou shalt be with me in Paradise.” We never lose our place in His Church or in this spiritual building. We are just moved to another place where we can continue to receive these blessings from God that are beyond our understanding.