In order to build anything, it must first have a solid foundation. What construction company would dare build any structure without laying a proper foundation. Without a solid foundation, whatever it is, will not survive the ever changing environments we live in. What about our lives, have we had a proper foundation laid? Most of us have not. Many of us have poorly laid foundations with severe cracks in them and we are barely holding up to the things this life is throwing at us. It is sad that we have to live this way, but yet, there is still hope. When I look out at the people that cross my path everyday, I often find myself thinking about them and myself. We are all trying to keep our heads above water with whatever tools we have received. Some of us had great parents, some good, and others poor or no parenting at all. Base on where we fall in that category, it will let us know what kind of foundation was laid for our lives. It doesn’t matter which one, because neither of those situations could have provided us with the kind of foundation needed to have victory in this life. We all need more. Its just that some of us need more work than others. My Grandmother used to take me to a small church when I was spending time with her. This church did not know how to properly teach Gods word to its people. It was a church full of people with poorly built foundations under their own lives, including the pastor. All I learned from attending that church was to read the book of Psalms. It was helpful, but I did not understand how to apply what I was reading to my life in order to grow and make changes. It did give me enough of a foundation to realize that I needed more of this book and I also need to be able to understand how it relates to me and how to apply it to the situations in my life. As I began to understand and apply later in my adulthood, I could feel that things were changing in my mind as to how to approach things that I would otherwise shy away from. In a nut shell, God was laying a new foundation for life as I began to understand and apply His word to my life. Any life that has a foundation built upon anything other than the word of God is just one storm a way from having it all blown away. Because we live in a broken world, we will often times experience wind damage, but if the word of God is our foundation, we will still be found standing when the winds cease and the clouds part.

Rhon Johnson

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Scripture Reference:

Luke 6:47-48

Whosoever comes to me, and hears my sayings, and does them, I will show you to whom he is like: He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock.