Job 11-13 | Acts 9:1-21

“For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.”  1 Corinthians 3:11

As we consider our own life, there are many aspects that make up who we are: family, friends, faith, health, careers, environments, finances, interests, hobbies, problems, character traits, likes and dislikes. We could consider these as different layers that piece together the full portrait of us, where each layer is layered upon a foundation. As valuable as each layer is, the foundation on which each layer is built on is extremely important.

Why? Several years after its completion, there was a crack discovered on the 42nd floor of a large office complex. The Chief Executive Officer of the building management called the architect and asked him to come. When the architect arrived, the CEO took the elevator to the 42nd floor to meet him but did not find him there. Eventually, the architect was found in the basement of the building. “What are you doing here? The crack is on the 42nd floor,” said the CEO. The architect replied, “You may have a crack on the 42nd floor but your problem is in the basement.”

As the CEO and the architect would discover, there was a security guard who worked in the building and wanted to build a garage at home but did not have the money for it. Every night he chiselled a brick out of the basement wall and added it to the growing pile in his yard. After months of doing this, a crack suddenly appeared on the 42nd floor. As the architect acknowledged, the cause had nothing to do with the 42nd floor, but everything to do with the building’s foundation.

Similarly, there are all kinds of “cracks” that can show up on the upper levels of our lives—family breakdowns, moral decay, social and political unrest. If we build our lives on a faulty foundation, one that seeks security in family, careers, monetary gain or status, we can be sure of cracks slipping into the foundation and spreading throughout our lives. However, if we build our lives upon a solid foundation—upon the foundation of Jesus Christ—we are permanently safe and secure, even when a myriad of temptations and seduction by varying sects and new-wave movements, promising prosperity and well-being attempt to chip away at our foundation.

Paul tells us, “For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ” (1 Corinthians 3:11). The Lord Jesus is not merely an option to choose from; He is the Truth rooted in God’s Word. No one slips a brick away from Him. He is the only impenetrable foundation there is, and the One we can trust to build a solid foundation.

PRAYER

Dear Lord Jesus, You are the only true and solid foundation that I can build my life upon. I ask that my life be pleasing to You. Thank You for all that You are to me.