Building on Solid Foundations

Lives like houses, need to be built on solid foundations.  We can spend a lot of time building our superstructures focused on success in work, learning, sport or other pursuits and forget to pay attention to what is at our core and foundation. Success is important and brings us pleasure and a sense of accomplishment, but this can be short-lived as we often quickly move to the next challenge. There will also always be times when we are not as outwardly successful as we would hope. Building our lives on success is like building our houses on shifting sand. When the fast-moving waters of life come rushing at us, we need a strong foundation to hold us firm. Strong relationships with family and friends, living with purpose and being strong in our sense of self and our core values can help to hold us firmer in more challenging times.

The strongest rock of all on which to build is God’s unconditional love for each one of us. The good news is that God comes to us as the builder.  We can rest in His presence. When we rest and listen to or read His word, He is building a foundation that cannot be washed away. This foundation enables us to wisely choose the other big rocks to place and build on our foundation. In this period of Lent, our focus on the forgiveness and renewal that Jesus’ death and resurrection brings into our lives provides an everlasting and unshifting rock of hope on which all others can be built.