TOPIC: FOUNDATION: ESSENTIAL FOR LIFE VICTORY

THURSDAY 9TH JANUARY, 2025

🎚 CENTRAL TRUTH:
The requirement for a solid foundation in the Christian Faith is based on 'Hearing and doing' the Word of God.

📖 BIBLE TEXT:
Matthew 7: 24-29

🔑 KEY VERSE:

Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come that they may lay hold on eternal life" (1 Timothy 6:19).

🖊️ COMMENTARY
Every house builder, both professional or amateur, globally knows that solid foundation is very essential in building. In some countries where earthquakes is a norm, the need for a solid foundation can never be over-emphasized. That is why so many buildings do not go down during the violent earthquakes. But, any building without a solid foundations is easily off the way. That is why the Lord Jesus used the language of building construction to teach us about the wisdom of building a solid moral lifestyle with a solid foundation of the Bible, so that when things of this world shake us, we do not allow the tempest to drown us.

According to our text, we really need to lay a good and solid foundation upon 'The Rock of Ages' - Jesus Christ, for the security of our lives, families and children. Christians need good and solid foundation for their families because the family is God's solution to problems of humanity. If the foundation of any family is solidified on the Rock of Ages, the parents and children grow to portray a good image of Christ to the entire world. The society at large will be a better and safer place.

Beloved people of God, please note that teaching, hearing and preaching the word of God are not enough blocks for the laying of the solid foundation. The blocks for the foundation cannot be completed without the 'Doing part of it'. So many Christians today concentrate more on the teaching, hearing and preaching of the Bible and neglect the 'Doing'. Therefore, let it be known to everyone of us today that the teaching, hearing and doing of the Word of the Master Jesus Christ is what makes a solidified foundation.

🙏🏿 PRAYER
Oh Lord help me to build a solid foundation that can withstand the storms and quakes of life.