"How firm, our foundation. How sure, our salvation. And we will not be shaken. Jesus, firm foundation." These words, written by the musician Mike Donehey, sum up the thoughts of my heart right now. I've stepped into a new building stage in my Christian life and it has caused me to remember again the crucial nature of standing on a firm foundation. Without a foundation, a building is nothing. In the same way, as a child of the Most High, I am nothing without my Foundation! I need to increase in my knowledge of who I'm standing on if I want to continue to grow!
As a builder, it's important to know your foundation. Build something on the wrong foundation and you are sure to watch it come crumbling down. Can the foundation support what you are about to build? Can it withstand the test of time? Is it easily shaken? When you build on a foundation, you need to have confidence in that foundation. Throughout Scripture, God had proven Himself to be that foundation in which we can place our total confidence.
God made us a promise, that when we become His child He will give us "all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us to His own glory and excellence" (2 Peter 1:3) Does that sound like a foundation that can support us? Absolutely! In Him, we have no lack of anything. We have all that we need to build lives of faith & godliness. God even gives us a blueprint of how to continue the building process! After starting with Him as our foundation, He goes on with instruction: "make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with alive. For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ." (2 Peter 1:5-8)
Our God can also withstand the test of time. In the words of the prophet Isaiah, "Trust in The Lord forever, for The Lord God is an everlasting rock." (Isaiah 26:4) The very words of our God are eternal and unchanging. Jesus Himself said that heaven and earth will pass way but His words will not. He stands as our firm foundation, from before the beginning of time and throughout all of eternity.
My favorite characteristic of our Foundation is His unshakeable and unchanging nature. Time changes, culture changes, other foundations will begin to shift and fall but our God never will! "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever" (Hebrews 13:8) When everything around us fails, He will not! He will be our peace and our security and in Him we can be unshakeable!! "I have set the Lord always before me, because He is at my right hand I shall not be shaken." (Psalm 16:8)
So as believers, if we desire to build lives of godliness and faith, lives that will matter for eternity, we must stand firm on our one foundation, Jesus Christ!
