~The Right Foundation~

The first post I wanted to write about is “The Right Foundation.” If we don’t have the right foundation in our lives, then nothing else will matter. If you build a house on a bad foundation, sooner or later, it will fall. And like our lives, if we don’t have the right foundation, which is Jesus Christ, we too will crumble and fall apart. We must build our life on Jesus and depend upon him to help us through the hard times. The bible says in I Corinthians 3:11 “For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.” We can have other things as the foundation in our lives but they will only last for a little while until they fall apart. Jesus is the only foundation that will stand the hard times and that will be a secure foundation and that will last forever! Is Jesus Christ the foundation for your life? If not, he can be today! 2 Timothy 3:19 “Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.” Just four simple steps to making him the sole foundation of your life! #1, You must realize you’re a sinner! Romans 3:23 “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.” Ever since Adam sinned in the garden, many years ago, we inherited a sin nature and everyone is born with it. The only one that has never sinned is Jesus Christ. He was the perfect Son of God. Even the “best of the best” is a sinner too! And because we are sinners, we cannot enter Heaven, the beautiful city of God. Heaven has no pain, sickness, heartache, crying, death, etc. Even though everybody wants to go there, not everybody will and the simple fact is because they will not accept Jesus and what he has done for them :( They’d rather do it their own way and they end up dying lost without the Lord and burning forever in the lake of fire. How terrible! #2, You must realize sin has a price! Just like as a child, if you disobeyed you parents, you got punished, the sin we do has a price and that price is death in Hell where there is no escape. God is holy and cannot let sin into Heaven. Romans 6:23 “For the wages of sin is death…” Just like when you work, you get paid; the payment for sin is death! But God loved us all so much that He gave his only begotten Son to die the horrible death for us so we could go to Heaven if we accept him as Savior. #3, You must accept that Jesus paid that price for us! God gave up his Son to die in our place! He is so awesome! I mean, can you imagine giving up your child or very best friend to die for everyone, even those that hated you?? God did that for us! We have one or two choices: accept the payment that Jesus paid for us or try to pay for it ourselves in Hell! I pity those who try to do it their own way only to miss Heaven by seventeen inches!! *Its seventeen inches from your head to you heart!* John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” That’s wonderful news! #4, We must repent and accept Gods way! Luke 13:3 “…Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.” Repentance is the key word! That’s what we have to do to except Gods free gift of eternal life! Repentance simply means turning from our way to Gods way. Romans 10:13 “For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” Whosoever means anybody and everybody!! It doesn’t matter what you do, where you have been, what you look like, who you parents are, Gods grace will always be greater than our sin and everyone can be saved if they only accept, repent, and believe!! Will you turn from your way to Gods way? Will you let him be the building foundation for your life? Its simple, just pray and repent of your sins and really mean it and believe in your heart. And the Bible says you will be saved! You will be in Heaven one day and Jesus will be the building foundation for your life! So when everyone around you is falling apart, you will be standing strong on your faith and foundation in Jesus Christ! I’m not going to say the Christian life is a bed of roses…because it’s not always easy living for Christ but it is definitely worth it in the end! I take that back, the Christian life is a bed of roses…but we all know that roses have thorns! My best friend gave me a gorgeous red rose the other day! Though its one of the prettiest flowers God made, it had big ugly thorns! Now, I didn’t throw the rose away just because it had a few thorns! As in the Christian life, there’s going to be heartbreaks and sorrows that come our way. But we don’t have to give up on God because of a few “thorns” in our life. We are to trust God to help us through all the bad times and he will! We need to trust and follow after God! Do you have the right foundation??