Unshakable

 

“I keep my eyes always on the Lord. With him at my right hand, I will not be shaken.”

—Psalm 16:8

Do you remember hearing the parable Jesus told about the two men who built houses? One man built his house on the sand. The other man built his house on solid rock. When the storm came and the waters raged, which house do you think stood firm? Why, of course, it was the house built on the rock. In fact, you may have learned the children’s song in Sunday School or Vacation Bible School about this very parable found in Matthew 7:21-28.

While Jesus told this story as a Parable of the Kingdom of God, urging those who followed Him to build their spiritual homes on the solid rock of faith in Him, there is more than a little truth about the need for a strong foundation when you are building a house. Have you seen any of the television programs about renovation or new construction where the builders faced a major problem with a poorly laid foundation? That’s right. In each case, without an unshakeable foundation, the building was doomed.

This leads me to ask myself—and you—on what kind of foundation have we built our lives? Have we built our lives on the solid foundation of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ? Or, have we built our lives on some other foundation that may very well be all-too-easily shaken?

The Psalmist offers these words of advice in Psalm 16:8:

I keep my eyes always on the Lord. With him at my right hand, I will not be shaken.

Keeping our eyes on Jesus—that’s really good advice. In fact, that’s exactly what the writer to the Hebrews urged us to do in Hebrews 12:2. We need a solid foundation for our spiritual lives. We can pretend that we don’t. In fact, we can scorn the idea that we need any spiritual dimension to our lives at all. But the truth remains, when the world crashes around us, without a solid foundation we will collapse, too.

Let’s begin this new day by setting our minds and hearts to the task of learning how to trust God for every aspect of our lives. Let’s keep our eyes on Jesus—follow His example by doing what He would do. If we do this, we will find we have a spiritual life that cannot be shaken. And that, dear ones, will make every other aspect of our lives unshakeable, as well.

 

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