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; Luke 12:32-59; Genesis 22; Psalm 15

George Foreman is a former professional boxer and two-time world heavyweight champion and an Olympic gold medalist. While he was at the height of his fame and success, George simply had no time for God.
Even in his childhood, there seemed to be room for God in his life. While he was growing up, his mother worked three jobs to single-handedly support seven children, and had no time to take them to church.
Foreman grew up in Houston’s toughest neighborhoods, where he entered into a lot of fights and at 16 years, he was a school dropout. Outwardly, it seemed he was doomed to a life of violence and uselessness, but then God began to turn things around for him.
While learning carpentry at a job training camp, Foreman’s fighting and rowdiness caught the eye of the camp boxing coach, who then introduced him to boxing. As he pursued a boxing career, he won a gold medal in heavyweight boxing at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. The win propelled Foreman to eventually win the World heavyweight championship.
Surrounded by wealth and fame, God seemed to be last thing on his agenda. But then that was until March 1977, when unexpectedly God showed up in a way George never expected.
That day, after losing in a Heavyweight boxing match with Jimmy Young., George foreman was in dressing room, angry, walking back and forth. Then suddenly without warning, he found himself dying. Seeing himself at death’s door, Foreman began to bargain with God, offering to devote his boxing prize money to charity. But he heard God saying to him “I don’t want your money, I want you.”
Then instantly he found himself cast into the bleakest darkness he had experienced. And then just as suddenly a “giant hand” plucked him into consciousness. Foreman woke up and found himself on a locker room table, surrounded by friends and staff members. And from that moment he handed his life fully over to God.
He would go on to become a pastor. And in 1994, he astounded the world when he returned back to boxing at age 45 to win again the heavy weight title. And today he remains the oldest living world heavyweight boxing champion in history and is rated one of the greatest heavyweight boxers of all time.

Though Foreman was wealthy and famous, his life was headed to a dead end without God. His near death encounter was a wakeup call that made him to realize how truly shallow his life was without Christ.
Today many people think having wealth and fame is all that matters, but that is not at all true. Having a spiritual foundation In Christ is greater than having all the wealth of the whole world.
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).

The depth of your foundation in the Word of God is what ensures your survival on earth. A man can have all the money in the world and still die unexpectedly. However when your life is built upon the strong foundation of Christ, you will have a strong anchor that ensures you are not torn apart by the storms of life. Life is full of storms, troubles, challenges that often come unexpectedly to test every man’s foundations.
Therefore 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. 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?’ A man’s soul must first be secured solidly in Christ before any other pursuit in life.
We are to follow God’s vision for us, and not our ambition. When we begin to first seek God’s kingdom, then all other things will be added unto us. We have to come to the place where we fully realize that our lives can only have meaning and value when we are planted in Christ’s perfect will. Greatness achieved outside of Christ has no value before God. Any pursuit outside of God’s will is eternally unprofitable. Jesus rightly said ‘Without Me you can do nothing’
But through Christ we can do all things. Indeed when our lives have been first based on the solid foundation of Christ, God will take us to enviable heights of destiny.

PRAYER; Lord Please help me to build my life on the strong foundation of Your Word. Let me never be distracted by the mundane pursuits of life. Thank You Lord for causing my heart to continually pant after You 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