Solid and Better Quality
- Crisyll Torres
- Feb 12, 2021
- 4 min read
Content from a few professionals is now a trend on YouTube. One example is the professional architects and engineers who create content about the basics of How to plan for your future house, budgeting, tips and lessons for aspiring architects and engineers, and a lot more.
If you’re not familiar with construction terms, they explain it in the simplest way or layman’s terms.
One of the things that struck me the most are what materials you must remember, who are the people---specifically professionals--should be approached for a quality, cozy, yet affordable house, and the importance of having a solid foundation in your home.
Of course, in our lives, we must also have it!
Wait, what?! Materials? Professional people? Foundation?
Yes, you read it right.
Materials. For us to have a deeper relationship and spiritual growth in Christ, one must maximize the materials we can use to help us in this journey.
Bible (hardcopy or even a digital copy on your gadgets), devotion book, devotion notebook, subscriptions to daily words and devotions, videos or podcasts of Sunday Mass, CDs, DVDs, or playlist of your favorite praise and worship songs, and the list goes on. Whatever you have right now, use it.
Next, Professionals. We don’t need the word “professional”, cause as long as the person has a good influence and will surely help you with your spiritual growth, you can always try to approach and ask them. I’m sure they are more than happy and willing to guide you to know God better.
Lastly, Foundation. Who else should be our foundation in this chaotic world?
As Paul said in 1 Corinthians 3:11 "For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ."
Let us not just simply listen or read His words, we must live with Them. If God and His words are the foundation of your life, then what storm, earthquake, or chaos can and will destroy you?
If our houses need trustworthy professionals, the best quality materials, and solid foundations, how much more our lives are more important than anything else?
If our houses have professional engineers and architects, the best quality materials, and a solid
foundation. Our lives have Godly mentors, high-quality Christian materials, and of course, the best foundation from God’s Word for us to become better and solid disciples of Jesus Christ.
Application:
These are your assignments (not to me) but to God:
1. Read, watch, or listen to any materials that you have which will lead you closer to God.
2. Try to seek your pastor’s, elder’s, group leader’s, or any church member’s advice whenever you’re having a problem.
3. Make God’s word the foundation of your household and in your life. Solid!
Here are the Bible Verses about Spiritual Foundations
1 Corinthians 3:11
For no man can lay a foundation other than the one which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
Isaiah 28:16
Therefore thus says the Lord God,
“Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a tested stone,
A costly cornerstone for the foundation, firmly placed.
He who believes in it will not be disturbed.
Isaiah 54:11
“O afflicted one, storm-tossed, and not comforted,
Behold, I will set your stones in antimony,
And your foundations I will lay in sapphires.
Matthew 7:24
“Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them, may be compared to a wise man who built his house on the rock.
Ephesians 2:20
having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the corner stone,
1 Timothy 6:19
storing up for themselves the treasure of a good foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is life indeed.
2 Timothy 2:19
Nevertheless, the firm foundation of God stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are His,” and, “Everyone who names the name of the Lord is to abstain from wickedness.”
1 Peter 2:6
For this is contained in Scripture:
“Behold, I lay in Zion a choice stone, a precious corner stone,
And he who believes in Him will not be disappointed.”
Deuteronomy 32:4
“The Rock! His work is perfect,
For all His ways are just;
A God of faithfulness and without injustice,
Righteous and upright is He.
Deuteronomy 32:31
“Indeed their rock is not like our Rock,
Even our enemies themselves judge this.
1 Samuel 2:2
“There is no one holy like the Lord,
Indeed, there is no one besides You,
Nor is there any rock like our God.
2 Samuel 22:47
“The Lord lives, and blessed be my rock;
And exalted be God, the rock of my salvation,
Psalm 18:31
For who is God, but the Lord?
And who is a rock, except our God,
Psalm 28:1
A Psalm of David.
To You, O Lord, I call;
My rock, do not be deaf to me,
For if You are silent to me,
I will become like those who go down to the pit.
Psalm 62:2
He only is my rock and my salvation,
My stronghold; I shall not be greatly shaken.
Psalm 94:22
But the Lord has been my stronghold,
And my God the rock of my refuge.
Psalm 118:22
The stone which the builders rejected
Has become the chief corner stone.
Matthew 21:42
Jesus *said to them, “Did you never read in the Scriptures,
‘The stone which the builders rejected,
This became the chief corner stone;
This came about from the Lord,
And it is marvelous in our eyes’?
Acts 4:11
He is the stone which was rejected by you, the builders, but which became the chief corner stone.
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