Your Foundation

Your foundation matters, but so does the way you portray how you feel when you go through storms.

Matthew 7:24-27.

Isaiah 43:2

Over spring break one of the leaders gave us a lesson about a parable given by Jesus in Matthew 7. In this parable, Jesus is talking to a crowd about two houses, one built on a rock, and one built on sand. When storms came, the house built on the rock stood, while the one built on the sand fell. I had heard this parable taught in church or Sunday school once or twice, but this guy made me look at it a different way. Although, the main point of the story is that we need to build our houses on the rock, (which is God). He said if you look closely at the passage BOTH houses went through storms, not just the ones built on the sand. No one had ever pointed this out to me, but it makes sense. God never told us that if we were to follow him that life would be perfect, but I think at times non-Christians and even ourselves think it’s supposed to be that way. If you are a Christian, at least for me, I know once I decided to give my life to Christ it felt like the storms got bigger than they were before. (I like to think of it as the devil trying to keep me from doing God's work.) But any way I think as Christians we think we have to portray to the world that everything is fine, that nothing bad ever happens, and that we aren’t struggling. I think we do that so that non-believers will be more willing to come to Christ, but I don’t think that’s the right way to go about that. We’re humans, we love to connect to others. Most friend groups have something that connects them, whether it’s a common interest or something that happened to all of them, they have a connection. I mean even as Christians we are all connected, not only because of who our father is, but because we all need him, and we fall short every day. This is the same with the lost, we were once like them, and even now we might be going through similar things. The only difference is that when we go through those trials we have help, where they are struggling by themselves. So, although it may be hard to bear your trials or storms with someone else, I encourage you to do so. Tell your truth, not only where God brought you from, but how he helps you through those storms daily. You never know who could relate, and who may look at your situation and your structure and may want to switch from sand to rock. You just need to be brave enough to be vulnerable and remember you’re not alone, God’s with you.