Everyone's life is built on something. A truth, a hope, an idea that you turn to for comfort, for direction, for meaning and purpose.
The question isn't do you have a foundation, everyone does. The question is is your foundation solid, firm. Is it a foundation worth trusting in or will it fail you?
There are plenty of foundations out there, plenty of choices, but the only foundation that really holds any true support is the foundation laid out by God.
So what foundation does God lay out for his people?
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2 Timothy 2:19 - But God’s firm foundation stands, bearing this seal: “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let everyone who names the name of the Lord depart from iniquity.”
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Here is a firm foundation. God's firm foundation that will stand and that bears the seal of his workmanship.
And this foundation is built on two great pillars of hope and truth.
First, God knows who are his.
In a world of chaos and tumult, where sin and darkness can feel like oppressive foes constantly seeking to devour us, God makes a promise that he knows who his children are.
We have not been nor will we ever be forgotten by our heavenly Father. We will never turn around to grasp his hand in trials and found he has wandered off or find him looking at us as if we are a stranger seeking comfort. We are and ever will be his.
Rest in that hope. Our comfort and assurance do not rest in our circumstances but in God's promises.
But God says there are two pillars to his firm foundation. What is the second?
Those who are God's act like it.
God will not forget his children and his children must not forget their father.
How do we act like his children? We must cast off sin and iniquity in our lives.
If the first pillar of our foundation rested in God's care, this second one is firmly established by our lives. We must not only call on God's name to rescue us, we must live as the rescued. What fool indeed would be pulled from the ocean's depths only to fling himself anew into those turbulent waters?
When God saves his people, his people live as if they have been saved. They do not return to that which killed them. They eschew the scene of that eternal crime, for they are happy in the presence of their new Father and want nothing more to do with that home of death. If we have been saved from sin, we must run from sin as a mortal foe.
Trust God. Run from sin.
In a world built on so many shaky foundations, here is the one that bears God's seal. This one can be trusted. Build your life on these two pillars and you will find a foundation that will prove itself eternally firm and true no matter what this world may throw at you.
What's your foundation?