What Makes A Structure Safe?

I’m talking about real structures here – like buildings, businesses, houses, etc. Now, personally I’m a man of faith, and it was a ‘faith reflection’ that got me thinking on this, but bear with me as I share this ‘line of thought’…


So as a Christian, I believe that it is God’s will that a true faith in Jesus is at the heart of every man, woman and child. I believe that outside of this revelation and truth of God – i.e. Jesus Christ – there is no ‘truth’, and nothing that will stand. This is the teaching of the Scriptures, from start to finish. It is undeniable, it is clear. But it is a ‘faith’ reality. It is Spirit. It is unseen. Even Jesus said about his kingdom, ‘It is not seen with the eyes… The kingdom of heaven is within you.’ (Luke 17:20-21)

So then I start thinking – even worrying – about how this faith is truly going to sweep the nations. How, if ‘unseen’, if a thing of faith, how are we as people going to actually believe and ‘build’ on this? We are so given to what we can see, touch and experience. We are so given, also, to our appetites for things we even know are not true, not pure, not holy. How, if God’s way and revelation is a non-tangible, how will his Kingdom be brought and established here? Surely buildings and churches and world organizations stand strong on other principles. This world is built and driven by human drive and actions and unspiritual motivations and strengths. But then I thought for a moment. I thought about that high, affluent, towering tower with that powerful CEO at the very top, in the pent-house. I thought about him for a short few seconds…

I thought about how this man, sitting high on a steel foundation with platinum, anti-earthquake engineering, thinks. He thinks, he feels, he desires. High on his human structure his heart quietly covets what is not his, that woman that is not his. And quietly, from the overflow of the heart, with the ticking of time, this same physical structure is compromised by robbery, wrongdoing, deceit, malice, envy and murder. This high, human tower of beauty, caves to the human heart of sin. Over time the man decays and dies, as does the tower.

My friends, this is not theory. This is what you read in 3 out of every 4 columns of the newspaper. This is reality. I leave you now with only one verse, though there is so, so much on this very issue from start to finish in the Bible. But I leave you with only 1 that came to my mind in the moment of this reflection:

‘No one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.’ (1 Corinthians 3:11)

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