Dealing with Life's Foundation!

Dealing with Life's Foundation

One of the most prominent phenomenon that lots of Christians have attached their life challenges to is 'foundation' resting on Psalms 11:3.

[My Offline Bible] Psalms 11
3 If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?

But Jesus Christ has dealt with it.
The foundation of any life or anything is so important, if anything goes wrong at that point the whole project becomes futile!

So it's understandable that people see every problem as coming from their foundation though may not always be so.

While that may be largely right, dealing with foundation problems isn't following the procedure of the same scriptures that identified foundation as the problem.

We would rather try to profer our own solutions than following scriptural prescriptions. We want to fast, pray or do some physically rigorous penance to deal with a spiritual problem while we neglect what God said.

Jesus said 'whoever ears these sayings of mine and practised them will be building his life's foundation on a rock...'

[My Offline Bible] Matthew 7
24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: 25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.

One thing majority of people looking for solutions don't want to do is learn what Jesus said about the issues of life...many don't know what He said and don't want to know...and if you don't know, you can't practice them and if you can't practice them the foundation remains faulty and as long as the foundation remains faulty the problematic tilt to life remains so...irrespective of whatever religious activities or superstitious rituals engaged in.

Apostle Paul called Jesus the foundation already laid, 1Corinthians 3, and no other foundation could be laid except that...others aren't capable of carrying the Christian destiny to term.

[My Offline Bible] 1 Corinthians 3
11 For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

This foundation is laid when the believer becomes born again by the incorruptible seed of the Word of God. Then we become new creatures, old things passed away and all things now become new. 2Cor 5:17

[My Offline Bible] 1 Peter 1
23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. 24 For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: 25 But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.

[My Offline Bible] 2 Corinthians 5
17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. 18 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;

...but that looks too cheap as if God has an alternative in a special ministration somewhere or by a special anointing.

When this foundation of Christ is properly laid and the believer sets out to make Jesus's words his or her manual for living, not trusting in any other gimmick or high sounding rhetoric, or in some ritualistic prescriptions, his life becomes so stable over time that no storm of life can shake... no matter how terrible.

If we neglect that simple passage Matthew 7:24-25....the whole words of Jesus as powerful as they may be are rendered powerless and the faulty foundation we inherited from our earthly, flesh and blood fore fathers remains, irrespective of whatever mountain or anointing we pray on top or under...

Seek from today to know what Jesus has said concerning life. Read through the Gospels. Seek the practicalities in the Acts of the Apostles and the explanations in the Epistles and live daily on them, interpreting the world around through them and see how powerful the Word of Jesus is in driving any destiny in the direction of divine pleasure, no matter how derailed such a destiny might have hitherto been! Start today!

When you have found it and make it a lifestyle, you inherit the blessing!

[My Offline Bible] James 1
21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. 25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

Good morning!

The Bible Class, TBC
Non Denominational Bible Discussion Class

exists to help in establishing a formidable foundation in Christ through offering knowledge and understanding of the Word and Mind of God concerning different issues of life...

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Next Class: 23rd April 2015
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