The Foundation

My wife "volunteered" me to help one of our mutual friends with some home fix up chores. One of them had to do with some old steps onto a patio.

The steps were worn and pretty beat up. And the patio . . .

"Did they put a foundation under the patio when they built it," I asked? (Obviously, by its condition, the answer was 'no')

"I'm not sure," she said. "Why do you ask?"

"Well . . ."

In Wisconsin where we live, winter frost can get pretty deep. All of the freezing and thawing that occurs during winter, fall, and spring causes movement. A foundation that extends "below frost" is needed to prevent unwanted movement and the resulting destruction.

My friend's entire patio will need to be replaced simply because the builder did not take the time to put in a foundation.

Our faith works the same way. Without a proper foundation in the truth and in God we will end up failing just like my friend's deck did.

“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock (a solid foundation). And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it.” - Matthew 7:24-27

Without a firm foundation our faith is useless. Trials will come in this life. We must be prepared for them with a strong faith in Jesus. Only then can we withstand the strongest of storms.

And should our faith ever get shaky, our foundation repairman, Jesus, is just a prayer away.