Foundations….

 Foundations…

Yesterday, I went with part of my family out into the surrounding hills, wandering here and there…the weather was soooo nice , sun shining, a gentle breeze, cattle around with newborns sticking close to their protective moms, snow runoff, new grass growing green , baby crickets emerging for their summer adventures….

There were two old foundations crumbling near our “picnic” area…someone long ago had lived here, maybe built a home, barn near a water source…their story long forgotten, but the foundation remains of times past…the stones were big and had taken a bit of work to haul them into place and they had come from a distance away from a matching hillside …

Building our homes now, we frame up a place to pour the concrete, order a truck of the mixture, smooth out the mud before it hardens, add the stem walls and finally have the foundation on which to build …

But, the Word speaks of believers as part of another building…a spiritual one…the principles are the same…we need a foundation, who is Christ…and we are being built on Him…it doesn’t crumble or fall apart with time, but grows with strength…

Thank YOU…

 As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 

For it stands in Scripture:“Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone,a cornerstone chosen and precious,and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.” 

So the honor is for you who believe, but for those who do not believe,“The stone that the builders rejectedhas become the cornerstone,” and“A stone of stumbling,and a rock of offense.”They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.

1Pet.2.4-8

 “Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it.”

Matt.7.24-27

How firm a foundation…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Prb4C_PEwWM