I read a story about how in the year 1900, the city of Galveston, Texas, was swept by a tidal wave that caused a great deal of damage, not just in property, but in life that devastated that city.

Soon afterward, the city fathers brought together a brilliant engineer,

a man who's renowned in his abilities.

And they hired him to design a seawall that would withstand any future storms.

And this brilliant engineer was told that safety and not cost

are to be his primary consideration. So by 1904, the project was completed. The wall consisted of a

massive barricade of five miles long and 17 feet high above the tide.

It was that engineer's crowning achievement.

He proudly declared that the fiercest gale would never affect that fortress.

A few years later, he was in Alaska, working on another project.

While in the middle of that project, he receives a cable, he receives a telegram,

and a telegram said,

another fierce gale came across and devastated Galveston and knocked down and demolished the wall that you have built.

He turned to his associate and he was stunned.

He was numb.

And he said, it's impossible.

It is impossible.

I built it to stand. There has to be some mistake. And sure enough, it was an error. The telegram came by somebody who panicked and did not have all the facts. As a matter of fact, today, that sea walls still stand as firm as the rock of Gibraltar.

And as I read this and I wondered in my own mind aloud, how many of us,

as soon as we face life storms, we panic and begin to think the worst.

And God looks down and he says, it is impossible.

It is impossible for you to perish because I am your rock and your shelter.

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