What foundation are you building your life on? If you’re a Christian then your automatic response is probably “Jesus” right? Great! We all grow up with different values and principles modelled to us – hopefully they are mostly good ones, but sometimes people or experiences we have mean we can have some unhelpful foundations in there too. They often just seem normal to us, probably because we don’t know anything different, but they can mean we find it difficult to be the people we really want to be and we maybe feel like we’re walking with a bit of a limp.
Sometimes we build our lives on foundations of fear – fear of what others think, fear of the future, fear of failure, fear of rejection, even fear of God and what he might ask us to do. Sometimes it’s a wrong foundation of identity – misunderstanding who we are or who God is. Sometimes we stand on the wobbly ground of looking for acceptance from other people, achievement or status, rather than God. It could be all manner of things!
So what do we do to build our foundations on the right things? Firstly, ask the Holy Spirit to show you if there’s anything He has to say about what you’re building your life upon. Then ask God to break down the wrong foundations in you and build new, secure, strong ones based on the truth of what He says, rather than what the world or the enemy says. It may be painful, it probably won’t happen overnight and it may require some effort from you, but it will be so worth it to know freedom.
