Like any building, one must first lay the foundation to ensure that the structure has something sturdy to stand on. Without this foundation, a structure will most likely collapse, endangering everyone in the surrounding area. This is likely where Jesus got the idea to apply the metaphor to our spiritual lives in Matthew 7. If the foundation of our faith is not in Jesus, then we might as well be prepared for everything to fall apart.
Growing up in the family I did, my foundation seemed strong. My parents only listened to Christian music, my siblings and I were sheltered from many movies and television shows that my friends were watching. I was in church every Sunday and Wednesday that the doors were open. I knew a lot about the Bible characters we were learning about, however, reading the Bible for myself did not make a whole lot of sense.
In 2002, my life flipped upsidedown. I lost two of my favorite people, my great-grandparents, early in the year. I spent two weeks in Australia with People to People, only to be told on the night I returned in the states, that I my family would be moving to Indiana. I did not get to say goodbye to my friends or meet new friends at the new school as we finally moved in just days before school started.
Once I got to school, turns out I almost immediately became the outcast in my grade, and this would continue for the rest of my schooling until college.
I do not know how, but it seemed that my aunt could tell I was not doing so well. She invited me to come to an event at my old school. I met up with one of my old friends and we found our seats. The speaker that night was funny, but it got serious when he presented the gospel. He did an alter call and my friend went forward. I remember being in tears and thinking I needed to go forward too. If nothing more than to support my friend.
I was given a “first time believer box” which had a Bible, devotional and other things in it. That is the night is the night I understood what it truly meant to follow Christ. The foundation had been laid by my family and church, but this was when the building truly started to take shape on top of it.
I ask you today, how is your foundation? Has it stood the test of time? Or has this time of isolation shaken it to the core?
I leave you today with Philippians 1:6
I am sure of this, that He who started a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.
God Bless and have an awesome week.
A Path of Living Stones 