Foundations

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While this is an installation for art, seeing what is left at the end, I couldn't help but think of what Jesus said:

Matthew 7:24-27

“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. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and yet it did not fall, for it had been founded on the rock. Everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not act on them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. The rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and it fell—and great was its fall.”

When I think about foundations, what comes to mind, is all of the people that seem to believe there are "many paths to God," that all of the different religions lead to the same end.  But, Jesus was very clear:

John 14:6

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me."

People without the correct foundation, though, can be deceived.  If people believe that any religion is good enough, their foundation is compromised.  It is like they have a foundation made of bricks of jello.  We have to remember where our foundation should be:

1 Corinthians 3:11

For no man can lay a foundation other than the one which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

Acts 4:7-12

When they had placed them in the center, they began to inquire, “By what power, or in what name, have you done this?” Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “Rulers and elders of the people, if we are on trial today for a benefit done to a sick man, as to how this man has been made well, let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead—by this name this man stands here before you in good health. He is the stone which was rejected by you, the builders, but which became the chief corner stone. And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved.”

© Vivian P. Kirkpatrick, 2015