The Foundation

      A person needs to have a good foundation when they are going to build anything at all.  When I was a child, it became necessary for us to build a new house as the old one was involved in a fire.  My Father hired a man with a bulldozer to dig the hole where the new house would be built.  My Father then went about making plans for the foundation with trenches around the new construction and a lot of measuring tapes and chalk lines with levels hanging on them.  I don't recall every detail or how he did it, but the foundations were soon poured and after a time, were ready for the first row of blocks to be laid.  You realize the importance of that first row of blocks since they have to be level with no margin for error.  If you are off just a little bit on the first tow, then it is going to be compounded in the rows to come.  A perfect foundation will make the rest of the construction stable.  In life, a good foundation is also crucial to every detail to come.  Genesis 1:1 says, "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth."  

      I got a text message from a friend yesterday that made a comment about this verse of Scripture.  It said, "If we get it wrong here, it will be wrong everyday hereafter."  There certainly is a lot of confusion in the world today on how we got to where we are.  There is that continual search for our "roots" in that we want to know how we were created.  A recent news broadcast mentioned the joy of discovering a large piece of matter that is floating around in space that could hold the answer to how we were formed.  Along with the commentary was the statement that we were formed billions of years ago and that this matter floating around in space has the answer.  The answer, however, is where it has always been and it is in the first words of the Book of Genesis.  "In the beginning God...."  This is where the foundation begins in the sense that what we believe about origin, life, destiny and the eternal state lies in the opening words of Genesis.  If I don't believe in Genesis 1-11, then I am going to have an even greater difficulty believing in the virgin birth, the resurrection, the flood, the crossing of the Red Sea and the Plan of Salvation and all the rest of the doctrines in the Bible.  With a failure to believe in the opening words of Genesis, I will find myself with a crumbling foundation that will erode  my own belief about life itself.  As my friend said, "If we get it wrong here it will be wrong everyday hereafter."   The term, "Thus saith the LORD" occurs some 415 times in the Bible and we can be confident in every Word that God said.  The simple phrase consisting of ten words in the KJV give us the answer to the question of our origin.  For me, If God said it, I believe it and that settles it.  Praise God today for what He has done, what He is doing and what He will do in the future.