When examining a variety of different structures you will see that they come in all shapes and sizes. There are huge sky scrapers, apartment complexes, small homes, mansions, even toy houses. But despite all these different varieties most all structures have several basic characteristics in common. Most all structures have roofs, walls, doors, and windows, but most importantly they have foundations.
Jesus used an analogy about foundations in Matthew chapter seven, I like the way it reads in The Message version:
24-25"These words I speak to you are not incidental additions to your life, homeowner improvements to your standard of living. They are foundational words, words to build a life on. If you work these words into your life, you are like a smart carpenter who built his house on solid rock. Rain poured down, the river flooded, a tornado hit—but nothing moved that house. It was fixed to the rock.
26-27"But if you just use my words in Bible studies and don't work them into your life, you are like a stupid carpenter who built his house on the sandy beach. When a storm rolled in and the waves came up, it collapsed like a house of cards."
First Corinthians three talks about foundations as well, saying, "no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ." But more than that it talks about building materials, which we will go into later, but for now I want to hit on them a little.
You see there are a lot of good building materials, but it is important that you do not mistake those materials for a foundation, Jesus is the only foundation. For example parents can be an excellent building material. However, someone who makes their parents their foundation can suddenly find themselves thirty and living at home.
The foundation of your life should be on nothing and no-one else than Jesus Christ, anything else and the structure of your life will fall like a house of cards.
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment