Weekly Devotional 1-21-2012 Firm Foundations

Hello everyone it is good to be back having taken a six week sabbatical from writing I feel refreshed and full of vigor to start writing again. It is 3:20 a.m. and I could not fall back asleep until I got up and wrote all that is coming to me in these early a.m. morning hours. This devotional is about firm foundations.

Recently I had to have my garage remodeled. There were two inch gapping cracks all through the foundation flooring and one exterior wall. As the contractor set up the level calibrated machine he discovered even with all the foundation cracks the garage itself, along the ridge top of the roof the garage was level so he said. This was a seven day endeavor to jack-hammer out all the old foundation (flooring) inside and pour new concrete with rebar throughout it. He also had to remove a portion of the beam along the side of the garage because the cracks went all the way through in two places. You see the original foundation that was poured had no rebar through it. Rebar is steel that is laid down prior to pouring the slab and tied together at the intersections to strengthen the concrete and hold it together after it is poured and finished. Without it later on the concrete moves and settles and will ultimately crack apart as mine was doing.

This got me to pondering on our foundation. In the bible in Matthew 7:24-27 Jesus says, “24Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. 26But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. 27The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.”

Sometimes life trips us up even with our firm foundation in Christ. It is just like that jolt of electricity that shoots through the wiring in your house that would trip a breaker that is what life does to us sometimes; it trips us up. We may feel cracked and even develop a few hairline fractures, but with our feet planted firmly on the ground, and being grounded in Christ we can know that no matter what life throws at us our hope is in the LORD. This life is only temporary, this world is not our home and one day we will all be firmly rooted and planted with no worries about faulty wiring or cracking foundations because we will be in our real home, our eternal home with our LORD and Savior Jesus Christ. May your cracks never get too deep nor the fault lines to lengthy to know that your LORD is with you through it all.