As many of you know my full time job is being a Realtor. I help people buy and sell homes year after year. I also deal with all the ends and outs of building a home from the ground up. I too live on the coast. That sometimes entails treacherous storms and hurricanes. A few years ago a new system of building was put into place that is called Gold Fortified construction. It means that a home can withstand up to 150MPH winds. That home is bolted, strapped and connected together essentially from the roof all the way to the foundation.
We recently had an amazing nite of worship at my church and we sang the song Build my Life by Passion and the chorus lyrics are “I will build my life upon your love, it is a firm foundation. I will put my trust in You alone, and I will not be shaken!” Oh how true this is, I exclaim to you! All throughout the Bible Jesus tells us He’s the Rock, He’s the Foundation. He’s the Way, the Chief Cornerstone. If we build our life, our actions, our thoughts and our hearts, our homes on Him; on the Bible; on His purpose for our lives and not our own, We will not falter. We will not crumble. We will not be shaken! In Matthew 7, Jesus told a parable about a wise man and a foolish man. The wise man built his house upon a rock and the storms came and his house was saved but the foolish man built his house upon the sand and when the storms came his home fell to the ground.
Open your heart today. Let Jesus be your Rock, your Cornerstone, your Gold Fortified construction and watch what He will do in your life! He is THE Firm Foundation.
Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a tested stone, A costly cornerstone for the foundation, firmly placed. He who believes in it will not be disturbed.
Psalm 71:3
Be my rock of refuge,
to which I can always go;
give the command to save me,
for you are my rock and my fortress.
Jesus answered, “I am the Way, the Truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
Matthew 7:24-27 English Standard Version (ESV)
Build Your House on the Rock
24 “Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 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. 26 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. 27 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.