House Foundations

The weather during the night was wet and wild. The rain lashed and the wind blew but I felt so safe. This house was solid even though it was old and draughty. My mind went back to another house that didn’t feel quite so safe. When the wind blew around that house the back door would constantly open and had to be locked to ensure that the wind stayed out.

As I laid in bed, I thought about the parable of the wise and foolish builders. Sometimes we don’t realise that we a house is built on sand. We didn’t! You might ask how? Well, the problem of the opening door was solved eventually, after we had some extensions built. The door stopped opening during windy weather, but the mystery remained as to why it had happened at all.

This was solved when we moved to our farm. Needing more room then the homestead provided we considered moving the previous house to the farm. A builder was asked to do a feasibility assessment and what he told me both surprised and shocked me. It would be easy to move, he said, as the house was only sitting on the cement slab, the only thing that was holding it down was the plumbing and the new extension. No wonder the door opened in the wind, the house moved with every gust. I’m surprised that the house didn’t blow away as well. So, as cement has a large quantity of sand in it, this house was built on sand and we didn’t have a clue.

There are times in our lives when things are wrong and we don’t have a clue that we are standing on sandy soil. It takes a special intervention from our Lord to alert us to the things that are wrong.

I remember once particular occasion. I was working and discovered that I was pregnant with our fifth child. We had decided that another child would be a good idea but had not actually got around to thinking seriously about it. For the first time in my life I didn’t think I was pregnant which was unusual for me. So when the doctor announced that I was, I was surprised. Due to having had major problems in the first trimester with all the others I had to inform my work that I may need time off. The adult class that I was teaching congratulated me and I remember thinking: “Why are they congratulating me, I haven’t planned this”. God hit me right between the eyes! This child is a special gift from me to you. The world talks about children as being a right to have or not to have but I (God) am the one who decides who is going to be part of my plan. I realised that I had taken on the world’s thinking (sandy ground) without realising it.

Once God had revealed my problem, He strengthen the foundations on which I stood. That God is the creator of life not the medical profession.

Thank goodness God was able to set me down on solid ground.