The new condominium looked good—on paper. The architect’s drawings, the plans, the blueprints—how sound and solid it appeared! As the building rose, tall and white against the blue sky, many looked forward to its completion and to the luxurious life it promised.
BUT—the engineers cut construction costs by designing the poured concrete floors too thin. Support columns were left out, solid walls to stiffen the building against high winds were omitted, and when the actual work began, the concrete was poured even thinner.
Floors sagged, support beams buckled and cracked, inspections were skipped, but the workers struggled on until the day it was to be “topped off.”
Suddenly there was a quiver, a tremor, a rattle, and with a roar of collapsing concrete, walls, floors, pillars and men fell. Eleven workers were killed in the crash; twenty-three others were injured.
A state consulting engineer said the “workers were building a structure destined to crash down on them!” From the foundation up, it could not support even its own weight.
Like those workers, many, many people are spending their lives building on a foundation “destined to crash.” “For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ” (1 Corinthians 3:1111For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. (1 Corinthians 3:11)). No matter how skillfully they build on another foundation or how many props they put in, it is only a matter of time till all comes crashing down.
As the world rushes on toward the end of the century, stop and check the foundation upon which you are building your life. There is only one safe foundation: the Lord Jesus Christ. To believe and accept His Word is to be “founded upon a rock.”
Perhaps you are thinking, “Oh, if I could only believe in the right way!”
That is not the difficulty. If you would only believe on the right Person, you would be saved. It is not your believing that saves you; it is the Person on whom you believe. Stop being concerned about the character of your believing and get occupied with the saving One, Jesus Christ the Lord.
A drowning man is not concerned as to whether he has gripped the friendly rope in a scientific way. Has he really caught hold of the rope? That is the point. If so, his safety is assured.
Are you really resting on Christ? If you are, His promise applies to you which says,