The wonders of technology! Just look around and you’ll see so much that was not even dreamed of even twenty years ago. Let’s look at a typical day.

5:00 am: The alarm clock goes off. No need to set the clock because it automatically synchronizes to a time standard in Colorado. Coffee is ready, already started by a timer fifteen minutes before. Check the weather report and satellite images off the internet. Looks fine, and now a couple of road cams and traffic reports. Eat breakfast and out the door to the car. Not many people out yet so the traffic-controlled lights are favorable. The cell phone rings so need to turn down the volume of the satellite radio. A family member from the east coast was lonely and wants to talk.

And so goes the day. E-mail, remote tech support from Alabama working on a cantankerous system and conference calls fill the day.

We rely on technology from morning until night. Communication, whether by telephone, fax or computer fill our days. Everywhere we turn we encounter computer-controlled devices. Our homes and cars are filled with computers. Small green or red lights flicker with activity. Walk into a room and the lights turn on. Walk away from a toilet and it flushes without effort – without a touch. Our lives are surrounded by gizmos that go beep in the night. All of this powered by electricity.

So reliant we have become on technology that our lives come to a crushing halt without it. Anxiety skyrockets. Tempers rage. We brutalize not only ourselves, but others as well, from pent up frustration. All these gadgets that purport to make life easier do nothing but lead us the eve of destruction.

Computers everywhere with many networked together on the internet. Cell phones that make us available at any time, and anywhere (or is it everywhere), strip us of solitude. Privacy is quickly becoming passé with web cams RFID, and global positioning being tied to cell phones.

Lurking in every corner of our lives is a growing threat of security, all at the cost of privacy. A common thread emerges, tying all this together: computer and communications. This thread is silicone. Fiber optics, glass fiber made of refined silicone, allow huge amounts of data to be sent across town, or across the continent, in fractions of a second. We can watch movies on demand with digital cable, and send large digital medical images to the far shore instantly.

The heart of computers are small, but powerful microprocessors built on, of all things, refined silicone. While impacting virtually every aspect of our lives we have become so reliant that without them life comes crashing down.

Silicone, an interesting element, is quite abundant in its natural form. That is sand. We are basing our very lives on sand – refined sand – powered by electricity.

Spoken long ago, but becoming so much more obvious today, are the words of Jesus in talking about those who say they know Him:

"Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock. But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall." (Matthew 7:24-27)

A storm is coming, and is nearly upon us. Our very lives are being built on sand. If our lives are not built upon The Rock, that is Jesus, we will be washed away.

And as for power, the apostle Paul writes to the church in Roman:
For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, "The just shall live by faith." (Romans 1:16-17)

There is quickly coming a time when it will be too late to decide between the Rock or sand. Jesus is The Rock. Make today the day of decision.