Rock of Our Redeemer

When you take pictures at night and there is not much light, the shutter in the camera will stay open for a while.  The longer the shutter stays open, the more light gets absorbed, and eventually you can make out what is in the picture.  If you shake or waver, the picture will get very fuzzy and will be hard to understand.  We were at Niagara Falls, but by myself I could not hold still enough to get the picture I wanted.  To get this picture I had to set the camera on a firm foundation and hold it there while it absorbed light.

When we are seeking light and truth we can only obtain a clear view when we are established on a firm foundation.  The only truly solid foundation is our Savior Jesus Christ.  He offers us a rock to build on, and we must do everything we can to hold ourselves to it.  As we learn more about our foundation through prayerful study of the scriptures we become more and more stable, and begin to understand the finer details in the picture of life.  As we stand firm in faith in Jesus Christ we will realize the blessings Helaman spoke of when he said

• 12 And now, my sons, remember, remember that it is upon the rock of our Redeemer, who is Christ, the Son of God, that ye must build your foundation; that when the devil shall send forth his mighty winds, yea, his shafts in the whirlwind, yea, when all his hail and his mighty storm shall beat upon you, it shall have no power over you to drag you down to the gulf of misery and endless wo, because of the rock upon which ye are built, which is a sure foundation, a foundation whereon if men build they cannot fall. (Helaman 5:12)