Foundation

"My feet stand on level ground; in the great assembly I will praise the Lord." Psalm 26:12

In a movie I saw this week, there was a scene of children walking along the grass, in a beautiful field...and the next minute they were gone, dropped down through the ground into an underground mineshaft. The foundation "looked" secure; the grass was growing and green and there was nothing suspicious about the foundation. However, it really was no foundation at all. As soon as the feet stepped onto the area, the ground broke under them...and into a pit they fell.

I thought about the foundation on which we build our lives. Is it strong? Is our foundation secure? Or is it a pretty green patch, that has the "look" of a strong foundation, but it is only a facade? How firm is our foundation? Will it hold up under storms and winds of change and trials? These are questions we need to ask ourselves in these days....In Luke 6:46-49 Jesus gives tells us a parable (a story to explain a truth). Most of us know it well. There is one man who builds his house on a rock (he dug down deep and laid a strong foundation). Another man built his house upon ground (without a foundation). When storms come and torrents struck, the house on the rock was not moved, because it was well-built. The house that was built without a foundation collapsed and was utterly destroyed when the storms came. Life is characterized by torrents and storms; no one is exempt.

I hopped on a website to check out "sinking foundations" of houses. Here is the question to ask: Was the foundation built on "fill" or disturbed soil? A sinking foundation can lead to major structural damage to your home; structural deterioration. The usual causes are bad drainage, ground movement, or poor construction. Take a look at your house. Do you notice: gradual slanting, misaligned doors or windows, or cracks in basement or sheetrock? These could be signs of a sinking foundation. The solution: steel piers~ these give support and stabalization of your foundation's walls.

So, let's ask that question:
*Was your spiritual foundation built on "fill" or disturbed soil? How was the soil of your heart when you began your journey with Jesus? Is there any "tilling" that needs to happen to provide good soil for the foundation? One of the men in Luke 6 dug down deep and laid the foundation on rock. The other man built a house on the ground without a foundation (fill).
*Have you noticed any structural damage to your "home"? Any misaligned doors/windows? (that would be noticable from the outside)~ What happens when the storms come?
*Causes~ ground movement/poor construction/bad drainage. How would you describe the construction of your house? What happens when the torrents strike the house?


The solution: get support and stabalization of your foundation's walls. We all need to have support and stabalization as we build our house. No one is to walk this life in Jesus alone....the storms come and waters rage, and our house will stand firm on the rock. But even in storms, friends help make the storms "not so scary". Let's be the man who hears God's Words and puts them into practice~ that's how to make the foundation strong (Jesus says), so when the storms come (and they will), our house will not shake because it was well built.