After seeing the overpowering TRUTH of God’s Glory overcoming evil In Revelation 17:14, & then hearing the VOICE of God call for HIS people to come out from the influence of Babylon/Evil, there are still hoards of people that cling to their past riches ;pleasures; lusts; status; & things...so much so that instead of rejoicing because of God’s offer of Mercy & Grace to be saved from evil, they want to cling to their past stuff->Rev18:9-20,”...the kings of the earth...will weep & mourn...& the merchants of the earth weep & mourn because no one buys their cargoes....& the fruit you long for has gone from you....they threw dust on their heads & were crying out...woe the great city..all who had become rich by her...in one hour...has been laid waste...”! Their perspective on life has stayed in the temporal, where all things they value are never going to fulfill them with the kind of joy and peace that are ROCK SOLID through Christ alone, and these things they are valuing eventually all fade away! Their values are those that are built on the shifting sand that Jesus talks about in Matthew7:24-27 (“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it.”)! When we don’t build our days/live on a foundation of The Words of The Lord (as Jesus says,”words of mine”), we likely building our days/lives with the same stuff that these people in Revelation 18:9-20 had....,and instead of rejoicing over the Mercies & Graces God displays for us each an every day through Christ, we will have the same discouragement and long faces that these people had when things don’t necessarily go our way, or challenges come into our lives that threaten our pride; our status; our temporal security system; etc. In other words, we will have none of the STABILITY in our lives that only Truly Trusting in God’s Word can bring. Jesus promises STABILITY in the verses from Matthew above! WHEN we take to heart what HE says about taking HIS Words to heart and making them an integral part of who we are and how we live. Dear Lord Jesus, I know that many pieces at the foundation of my life need to be replaced by the SOLID ROCKS of Your Word...guide me to these places...and help me to permanently cement them into my life.