How Firm A Foundation?

Psa 11:3  If the foundations be destroyed, What can the righteous do? 

This was our topic last Sunday morning, where David encounters those that are telling him to run and hide from his enemies.  The first verse had affirmed his faith in God, yet people were telling him that God was not going to care and who was he that God should even glimpse in his direction.

The foundation of a house tells you a lot about the house. You can’t put a big house on a small or faulty foundation because the house will eventually collapse. The same is true for spiritual foundations. You can’t be what God wants you to be when your spiritual ideas, motivations and beliefs are built on something other than God. 

In life, we are given a lot of different options for what will be the foundation of our lives:

1. WHAT EVERYONE ELSE IS DOING  Many, just do what every other person is doing. If it’s popular, that’s what they do. However, we know that what is popular today won’t be popular tomorrow. Basing your life on what is popular in the moment is like building a house on roller coaster. It doesn’t work!

2. TRADITION  Many choose to  build their lives on what has always been done — or how their parents did it.  Tradition becomes tradition because it works. Yet,  no tradition lasts forever. In Mark 7:8 Jesus tells the Pharisees never to put tradition before truth. It’s a good reminder for all of us because while tradition can be good, tradition can be detrimental. 

3. REASON. God gave us the ability to reason and we need to use it. However  our reason isn’t infallible. Proverbs 16:25 says, “There is a way that appears to be right, but in the end it leads to death."   

4. EMOTIONS   To some,the philosophy is if it feels right, they do it. But feelings can lie — they lie all the time. You lie to yourself more than anyone else. If you live by your feelings, you’ll spend your life manipulated by your moods.

There is one more thing that we can place in this list, because it is what the godly person should do. We build our lives upon God’s Word. Jesus said in Matthew 7:24: “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.”  Truth never changes.  It is what will judge the other four! You may not always understand his Word. You may not always like it. It won’t always be "politically correct" according to societal view. But it’s the only thing stable enough to build our lives upon.

Is your life, your heart build upon the foundation of God's Word? If not, then what distractions in your life are keep you from fully building your foundation on the Bible?

Jim