Years ago I heard an illustration of a young boy named David
who was busily engaged in building a sand castle on the seashore.
This was not to be an ordinary castle. It was to be the most
magnificent sand castle ever built.
David labored from the early hours of the morning through the
heat of the noonday sun. Gradually the sand castle began to take
shape before his very eyes. He had crafted magnificent motes to
protect the sand castle from invaders; there were huge fortresses
with flying buttresses; and there were tall, stately towers with
brightly colored flags furled in the breeze above them.
David was so engrossed in his labors that he was completely
unaware that the sun was slowly sinking. He was oblivious to the
dark clouds forming on the horizon and was completely blinded to
the tide that was moving inexorably closer and closer.
Finally, the inevitable occurred. In the growing crescendo of
waves, there came that mighty torrent of water that leapt his
carefully crafted mote and overwhelmed the castle of his dreams.
David stood there with sand and water dripping from his fingers,
looking down in utter disbelief and dismay as his magnificent
sand castle disappeared into the sand around it. The towers had
crumbled, the motes were full of water, and the flags laid
muddied in the sand.
A sad story? Perhaps. But not nearly as sad as the fact that
this is a perfect analogy of the post-Christian era in which we
live. Like David, we are busily engaged in building our dream
castles. And we are unaware -- like David was -- of the "sinking
sun," of the "dark clouds" moving toward us, and of the
inexorable "drawing nigh of the waves."
Three significant waves have crashed upon the shores of
America. The pilgrims rode in on the first wave and brought with
them the Judeo-Christian tradition. God was honored as the
sovereign Ruler of the universe, and America became the greatest
missionary-sending force in the world....
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