Matthew 7:24-25
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
- DAILY READING – – Revelation 14; Esther 5:1-6:13; Psalm 106:24-48
At 828 metres, the 200-plus-storey Burj Khalifa in Dubai, holds the Guinness World Records for the tallest building. It is also the tallest man-made structure on land, it has the Highest Restaurant from Ground Level and holds the world’s highest observation Deck. This towering structure, opened in Dubai on January 4, 2010. It is a staggering 2,717 feet tall, which is more than half a mile high. At 828 meters it stands double the height of the renowned Empire State Building and easily overshadows the previous world’s tallest building, Taipei in Taiwan which is but 1,671 feet tall. While most attention focuses on its height, perhaps the greater attention should be on the foundation. Without a solid foundation, the world’s tallest building could easily become the world’s longest pile of rubble. It took a whole year just to build the foundation, which extends 164 feet deep and lies on 58,900 cubic yards of concrete weighing over 120,000 tons! Such deep, strong foundation is needed to carry such great height.
In the same way spiritually, as long as you have a good foundation, you can build as high as you like. You can’t build a great building on a weak foundation. You must have a solid foundation if you’re going to have a strong superstructure. To build high, you must first dig deep.
So it is with our lives. We cannot be thinking of rising to great heights in life, without first laying a strong, and deep foundation from God’s Word. The support for any truly great life must be a solid foundation in God’s Word.
Jesus said, “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” (Matthew 7:24-25).
For our lives to be truly unshakable, we must build on the strong foundation of The Word of God. When storms come it is only the houses built on solid foundations that stand.
The depth of your foundation in the Word of God will ensure you are not torn apart when storms strike. The stream, rain, wind, in the parable of Jesus represents the storms of life. Life is full of such storms, troubles, challenges will often come unexpectedly to test our foundations. A man will stand or fall based on his depth in The Word of God.
We shouldn’t pursue the things of this world, at the risk of losing our soul. We shouldn’t run after high ambitions, while our spiritual foundation remains shallow. We will prosper physically, according to first, the prosperity of our soul. 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 that come from the enemy.
Psalms 11 says ‘And if the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?
For a man who lacks strong spiritual foundation, one misfortune, can wipe out everything he has spent all his 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?’ It is our spiritual depths that sustain the heights we attain in life. To stand in the face of any challenge, we must strive to build on a strong foundation, of The Word of God. When our lives are built on the rock of God’s Word, no matter how the wind, rain or storm may come our way, we shall never fall.
PRAYER; Lord Please help me to build my life on the strong foundation of Your Word, so that no matter what cones my way I can always stand in Jesus Name. . .
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For you to enjoy victory in the Kingdom of God, you need to develop a Kingdom mindset, that thinks in line with the Word of God. – WORDBITE 222.
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