Psalms 11:3 ‘If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?
DAILY READING; 1 Peter 4; Jeremiah 37-38; Psalm 137
According to a report in the New York Times, one of the survivors of the Great Japanese earthquake of January 17, 1995, was Mr. Yasuhisa Itakura. He was working all night in his office at a big construction company in Kobe, when the earthquake started at 5:46 a.m. However, though his office swayed, there was no damage at all, the books stayed on their shelves and nothing fell off his desk. The minimal disturbance made him to think what had taken place was a minor earthquake. However, he was shocked to eventually emerge from his office and realize that the city had been hit by a catastrophic earthquake, which killed more than 6,000 people and injured 26, 000.
What had had cushioned Mr. Itakura from the violence of the earthquake was the fact that his three-story office building was sitting on a foundation fitted with shock-absorbing devices that greatly prevented collapse.
After the 1995 Kobe earthquake, Japan began to massively use this technique in most of its constructions. The nation’s advanced structural engineering, ensured deep foundations and massive shock absorbers which would prevent energy produced by an earthquake from tearing skyscrapers apart. The result of this was that when Japan was again hit by a devastating earthquake in March 2011, the damage was far less.
Today, Japan is the best-prepared country in the world for the twin disasters of earthquake and tsunami. The country has spent billions of dollars in developing the most advanced technology against earthquakes and tsunamis. This has resulted in Japanese buildings that tend to be much stiffer and stouter than similar structures in other earthquake-prone areas in the world. Chile, China, Italy, Mexico, Peru, Turkey and other countries vulnerable to earthquakes are also adopting the same technology to safeguard their buildings.
Likewise, spiritually, as long as you have a good foundation, you can survive whatever comes to shake you. No matter the fierceness of any storm, with a strong foundation of faith, you will stand and not fall.
In Matthew 7:24-25 Jesus says, “Everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The 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”
Basing our lives on the foundation of hearing and obeying God’s Word, will cause us to be truly unshakable. The depth of your foundation in the Word of God will ensure you are not torn apart no matter what comes your way. The stream, rain, wind, in the parable of Jesus represents the storms of life. These troubles and challenges can sometimes strike unexpectedly. At such times, a man will stand or fall based on the strength of his faith, which is a function of his depth in God’s Word.
This is why we must take time to deliberately build up our faith through quality time spent in fellowship with God through His Word, prayers, and worship.
The truth is that you are either going to pay the price to build a strong spiritual foundation or you pay the price of crumbling in the face of the storm. People who don’t have time for God, eventually end up having time for troubles. We shouldn’t be so busy pursuing the things of this world, at the risk of losing our spiritual battles. We shouldn’t be running after high ambitions, while our spiritual foundation remains shallow. No matter, how high a man rises in life, he can easily fall, if there is no spiritual strength built from the Word of God to resist the attacks of the enemy.
Psalms 11:3 says ‘And if the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?
One financial misfortune, sickness, accident or calamity is enough to wipe out everything a man has spent his entire lifetime laboring to build. This is why Jesus asked ‘what does it profit a man to gain the world and yet lose his own soul?’
For a man to survive those evil attacks that sometimes strike like an earthquake, it takes a solid spiritual foundation. Our spiritual depths is what will sustain the heights we attain in life. Do not wait for a storm to strike before you seriously begin to seek God. If we accept the spiritual responsibility of daily building up our faith through spending time in God’s Word, we will live ever ready, and remain unshakable and indefatigable, even in sudden challenges. Indeed when our lives are built on the solid rock of God’s Word, no matter how hard the winds blow or the storm rages, we will always stand and never fall.
PRAYER; Lord Please help me to build up my faith through spending quality time in Your Word. With a strong foundation of Your Word, I know that I will always remain unshakeable no matter what comes my way in Jesus Name. . .
QUOTE
When you praise God despite your situation power is released for a raise. WORDBITE 222.