Landslide

One of the places that many of my friends and family enjoy visiting is the Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge areas of Tennessee.  With only a few routes to get there from GA, the shortest and most scenic one is taking the Newfound Gap Road.  It's 34 miles of curvy mountain road running from Cherokee, NC to Gatlinburg, TN.  Last week, after days of rain and flooding, there was a landslide that took out about 200 feet of the road.

http://www.nps.gov/grsm/parknews/nfg-landslide.htm

The Newfound Gap Road was completed in 1932.  It is hard for me to imagine how the engineers were able to make the mountainside stable enough to support a road, as well as the weight of thousands of vehicles each year.  Now 80 years later, the road is closed until the builders are able to recreate a stable foundation and reconnect the roadway.  

As I looked at the photos of the damage, I was reminded of Jesus teaching the parable of building solid foundations.  

Luke 6:47-49  Whoever comes to Me, and hears My sayings and does them, I will show you whom he is like: He is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently against that house, and could not shake it, for it was founded on the rock. But he who heard and did nothing is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream beat vehemently; and immediately it fell. And the ruin of that house was great.”

When the rains come, does your life look like a landslide?  Is everything washed away?  Or, when the rains come, do you feel safe and secure knowing that you are trusting that all things work together for good to those who love God.  

Experts will be hard at work getting this road rebuilt and opened.  Who is your Expert when storms come into your life?