The foundation of a building is the element that connects it to the ground. It’s located at the bottom of the construction, in direct contact with the soul, and acts to transfer loads safely from the building to the ground. Foundations provide structural stability and support to the building.
You can of course build a house without a foundation but the simple truth is it won’t stand for very long. Historically, houses without foundations have tended to be simple affairs, built around the earth floor which weren’t designed to last.
The same is true with our lives. If our foundations were weak, we would not stand during tough times. 1 Corinthians 3:11 says, “For no other foundation can anyone lay than that with is laid which is Jesus Christ“ Any foundation has to be unbreakable and unshakeable. A walk that will withstand the storms, the trials, the challenges, and every other thing that the Enemy will bring our way. A firm foundation is absolutely mandatory.
One of my favorite parables is in Matthew 7:24-27,
“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on the rock. Everyone who hears these words of mine, and doesn’t do them will be like a foolish man, who has built his house on the sand. The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house and it fell -and great was its fall.”
Before one can even build a firm foundation in their life, they have to know who Jesus is and what He has done and this must be firmly engraved on the tablets of our hearts to ensure growth in the things of God.
I think about the years I did not know Jesus and remember I was a mess, in my life. Every time a trial or challenge came I would fall apart. During covid, I have seen so many people in fear and distress. People fighting in stores over toilet paper or food or others not wearing a mask.
It is through Jesus and His finished work on the cross that we have been brought into this life through faith in His blood. He is the reason that we are and all that we are and all that we will ever be, rests on Him.
I know that “if I get Jesus wrong, it doesn’t matter what I do right.” If a firm foundation in Christ is to be built, a love for the Word of God must be nurtured, to order to be in proper handling of our life that the Bible must be used as our instruction manual.
Unless these two dynamics are in place one’s life will be like the tower in Italy (the Leaning Tower of Pisa). And be subject to leaning and sinking.
Psalm 119 tells us with certainly the essential place and need for God’s Word on our lives and a firm foundation.
Armed with the powerful truth of my work in my foundation Jesus had stamped on my heart an unconquerable trust making Him my foundation, and coupled with a love for His Word, which nourishes me daily and makes my foundation stronger.
“My soul follows close behind Him and His right hand upholds me” (Psalm 63:8).
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