After three months of waiting, our builders will be pouring the concrete for our basement foundation today. In recent days I've been driving out there to check progress. I've walked around other new homes and looked at the foundations that were recently formed. It hit me that the concrete foundations, while very thick and strong, are not particularly attractive. The concrete has rough edges and steel rods running through it. If a house were nothing but foundation, it might serve well as a bomb shelter but it sure wouldn't be very attractive (low curb appeal for sure). Well, fortunately, they'll dress up the concrete surface that is exposed with bricks and cover the rest with dirt. When you drive up to the house you won't see the foundation, you'll see what the foundation supports. I'm sure my analogy is very transparent today. The foundation of our lives is Christ ("On Christ, the solid rock I stand. All other ground is sinking sand"...from the old song). Christ has built His foundation within our lives by going through some unpleasant (really ugly) treatment at the hands of men and He was willing to be cut off from His father in heaven and suffer our punishment. Sometimes, also, it takes difficult times with pain and trial in our own lives to come to Christ and realize He is the only dependable base. When you scrape off everything else...when you push the dirt away...what is holding you up! I hope Jesus is under everything else in your life...He is the only solid foundation.
1 Samuel 2:8
He raises the poor from the dust
and lifts the needy from the ash heap;
he seats them with princes
and has them inherit a throne of honor.
"For the foundations of the earth are the LORD's;
upon them he has set the world.
and lifts the needy from the ash heap;
he seats them with princes
and has them inherit a throne of honor.
"For the foundations of the earth are the LORD's;
upon them he has set the world.
Blessings,
Rob Smith
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