Yesterday while sitting at church, my mind wandered to the topic of foundations in life. When you have a healthy, safe, stable childhood, you have a good foundation for being a healthy, safe, stable adult. I have been blessed to have had a very good foundation in my childhood, filled with love, godliness, safety, and stability. But not everyone has this foundation, and I wish dearly that everyone did have it. Then I thought about how Jesus is a firm foundation, someone safe that we can lean on and build our lives upon, so even if someone didn’t have a good foundation to begin with, they can have one with Jesus Christ. Then I thought about how even if I have a stable foundation, that doesn’t matter; there’s no reason for my to “glory in it,” as we Christians might put it. Aside from Christ, no one’s foundation matters, whether steady or unsteady. Whether I have a stable foundation or not, Jesus is the only truly stable foundation and the only one I should be building my life upon. No one has a reason to boast in their own foundation, or in the foundation of their parents, or in anyone else’s foundation. The only foundation that matters is Jesus.
If Jesus Christ is not my foundation, it doesn’t matter how steady or stable I may be on my own, or how good the work was that my parents put into my childhood, eventually I will fall. In comparison to Jesus, my own steady foundation is unsteady. I will be nowhere near as stable as I should be without Jesus. When the storms of life come, if I am built on Jesus, then I will stand steady and stable.
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