Title: Focusing on Faith (9)
Series: Weakness Is Your Greatest Strength
Author: Eddie Snipes
Text: 1 John 5:4, Hebrews 11:6
Life is full of storms. Most storms are passing and minor, but there will be times when threatening storms arise. A few times in life you will have hurricanes pass through that can leave you in despair. It is these storms that reveal the foundation we are building upon.
Are you founded upon obedience and religion? Non-religion and pride? Both of these are weak foundations that depend on yourself. The person who declares that they need no religious crutch is building on the foundation of self and pride. The person who lives for obedience and keeping themselves religiously upright is also founded upon self and pride. These self-decorations may look different from the outside, but both have the same foundation.
I know this may seem odd, but the truth is, if you are anchoring your life on what you do or have done, you are building on sand. We can't recognize the weakness of our foundation until a storm hits. Jesus explained this in the parable of the two men who built a house. One on the sand, the other on the rock.1
Both houses looked solid from appearances and both appeared to be equal. It could have been many years that both men lived without seeing a problem with the house. As life will do, one day a terrible storm passed through. The winds beat on the walls while the rain hammered at the foundation. One foundation could not erode, because it was solid rock. The other began washing out from under the house, and then great was the fall of that house.
Storms will arise in life. These storms will reveal the foundation you are building upon. Some storms shake us, but we can rebuild; however, there are times when life hits us so hard that our foundation can't withstand - unless it is standing upon something greater than the storm.
You don't build the foundation. If you ...
Series: Weakness Is Your Greatest Strength
Author: Eddie Snipes
Text: 1 John 5:4, Hebrews 11:6
Life is full of storms. Most storms are passing and minor, but there will be times when threatening storms arise. A few times in life you will have hurricanes pass through that can leave you in despair. It is these storms that reveal the foundation we are building upon.
Are you founded upon obedience and religion? Non-religion and pride? Both of these are weak foundations that depend on yourself. The person who declares that they need no religious crutch is building on the foundation of self and pride. The person who lives for obedience and keeping themselves religiously upright is also founded upon self and pride. These self-decorations may look different from the outside, but both have the same foundation.
I know this may seem odd, but the truth is, if you are anchoring your life on what you do or have done, you are building on sand. We can't recognize the weakness of our foundation until a storm hits. Jesus explained this in the parable of the two men who built a house. One on the sand, the other on the rock.1
Both houses looked solid from appearances and both appeared to be equal. It could have been many years that both men lived without seeing a problem with the house. As life will do, one day a terrible storm passed through. The winds beat on the walls while the rain hammered at the foundation. One foundation could not erode, because it was solid rock. The other began washing out from under the house, and then great was the fall of that house.
Storms will arise in life. These storms will reveal the foundation you are building upon. Some storms shake us, but we can rebuild; however, there are times when life hits us so hard that our foundation can't withstand - unless it is standing upon something greater than the storm.
You don't build the foundation. If you ...
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