Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Foundation For Building

It is said that the most important part of a building is its foundation. The newly finished home may look lovely, but if the foundation is weak and crumbles over time, all that is built upon it will crumble as well. On the other hand, if the foundation is sound but the house itself is poorly built, the above foundation building can be repaired or redone, even if it needs to be completely reconstructed. We are like these buildings.

1 Corinthians 3:9 For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.
10 According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.
11 For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

Our foundation must be that we have a Messiah, Yeshuah (Jesus). This may be why the spring feasts – Passover, the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and Shavuos. These festivals clearly point to the death and resurrection of the Messiah, tieing it to the Passover, the deliverance of the children of Israel from slavery, and the connection between the giving of the Holy Spirit in Acts with the giving of the Torah. If we break these apart, we weaken the foundation of Messiah Yeshuah.

We each need to ask ourselves, what are we building? What are we building upon? In this way we can help to ensure our foundation is secure.

Prayer
Father, we exalt You. You alone are King. Praise the name Yahuah! Send us today Your overwhelming provision. Forgive us our sins. Heal up our minds and our hearts. Deliver us from the death that is all around us. Deliver us from the mischief of those that would take away from Your scriptures what You have placed there. Deliver us from the thief that steals and destroys. Restore unto Your people one hundred times one hundredfold. We ask these things in the name of our Messiah Yeshuah (Jesus). Amen.