Presenting ...
... a weekly letter of encouragement.
3 December 1997 - Singapore
Good Morning!
BUILDING A FOUNDATION IS A TEDIOUS AND MESSY PROCESS
Across the street from our apartment, I am observing the arduous
process of laying the foundation for a multi-story apartment complex.
There is nothing aesthetically attractive about the operation
as noisy pile-driving machinery, and earth-moving equipment disturb
the air in this quiet residential district.
I'm told that 2/3rds of the construction effort will go into that
part of the edifice few will ever see: the foundation. I also
understand that the process cannot be rushed.
Recently, a construction company tried to cut short the procedure
on a building's foundation and ended up with a sky scraper that
tilted at a slight angle. The contractors paid off the building
inspectors and all seemed fine...until they attempted to
put in the elevators!
So...How is your foundation? Rock solid?
Or slapped together in a rush? Have you submitted
yourself to the laborious, and-less-than glamorous process of
getting that foundation down right? Or are you a tilting edifice
that is spongy and off-center at the core?
The storms of life will come to all of us, Jesus cautioned.
But only those who make the effort to lay a solid foundation
by knowing and applying the word of God will weather
life's inevitable tempests:
"THEREFORE
EVERYONE WHO HEARS THESE WORDS OF MINE AND PUTS THEM INTO PRACTICE
IS LIKE A WISE MAN WHO BUILT HIS HOUSE ON THE ROCK.
The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and
beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its
foundation on the rock. But everyone who hears these words of
mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man
who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams
rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell
with a great crash." (Matthew 7:24 - 27)
The Scriptures remind us, "when
the foundations are being destroyed,
what can the righteous do?" (Psalm 11:3)
QUESTION: WHAT PRACTICAL STEPS ARE YOU CURRENTLY TAKING TO INSURE THE FACT THAT THE FOUNDATION OF YOUR LIFE IS SOLID ENOUGH TO WEATHER THE INESCAPABLE STORMS OF LIFE?
My prayer is that you are having a great week!
Dwight Hill
- 1 Coleman Street #02-34
The Adelphi - Singapore 0617 .
- Phone: 337 6498; Fax: 336 9913
(c) Copyright 1996 Dwight Hill. Unlimited permission to copy or use is hereby granted subject to inclusion of this copyright notice.
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