What kind of foundation is your life built on? What is the foundation you stand on? Is it solid? Is it soft and spongy. Are you standing on a foundation of solid rock? Are you standing on a foundation of sand? Has the foundation you are standing on been built properly?
Having a solid foundation to build our lives on is important. It is that strong foundation that will hold us when things go wrong. If our foundation crumbles, our whole lives can crumble with it. If we have not built our lives on a solid foundation, we can make a new start to do so.
How do we know if we are on a solid foundation? We know through experience. We know when trials come and we are not shaken. The foundation will hold us and support us as we weather the storms of life we face.
Jesus is the chief cornerstone of God’s foundation. What does that mean? A cornerstone is the first stone laid for a foundation. It has perfect right angles and placed perfectly so the rest of the foundation is laid from it. If the cornerstone is off by even a smidgen, the rest of the foundation is off. It is through Jesus that all of creation is supported. Everything was created through Him (John 1:3).
Building our lives on a solid foundation requires us to build it on the foundation that started from the beginning. That beginning starts with the Word of God that became flesh in the person of Jesus Christ. It may be a mystery that we do not fully understand, but it is a truth we can trust and stand on in a world filled with half-truths and lies.
I pray we all know that Jesus is the chief cornerstone. I pray we know He was there from the beginning. I pray each one of us will build our lives on the strong foundation of God and his Word. Jesus is the chief cornerstone. All things were created through Him. Build your life on God’s foundation. Build your life on God’s Word.
Psalm 118:22
The stone that the builders rejected
has become the chief cornerstone.
Marty Pressey 