Christ, The Sure Foundation

To celebrate our two year anniversary, and to give me a creative break, Abundant Grace will be reprinting some classic blog devotions from year one for the next month.

                 How important is a solid foundation?  In Iowa the frost goes fairly deep. Without a solid foundation the house will shift when the frost comes out of the ground each spring.  Over a period of years that can cause a lot of shifting leaving everything out of shape and the roof in near condition of collapse.  In Iowa we need a sure foundation.

In Scripture Christ is frequently referred to in terms of being a foundation or corner stone of our faith and life.  In I Cor. 3:11 Paul said, “For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.”  Isaiah 28:16 gives this prophecy about the coming foundation stone of God, “Therefore thus says the Lord God: ‘Behold, I lay in Zion a stone for a foundation, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation.”  The psalmist in Psalm 118:22 prophesied that “The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone.”  Peter quotes both Isaiah and Psalm 118 in I Peter 2. 

An ancient hymn of the church, dating possibly as far back as the 600’s, extols Jesus Christ our sure foundation.  This hymn, “Christ Is Made the Sure Foundation” was translated in the 19^th century by John Neale.  The first stanza of this hymn reads, “Christ is made the sure foundation, Christ the head and cornerstone; Chosen of the Lord, and precious, binding all the Church in one, Holy Zion’s help forever, and her confidence alone.”  Samuel Stone wrote another hymn about Christ being the foundation, “The Church’s One Foundation.”  His first stanza reads, “The Church’s one foundation is Jesus Christ her Lord, she is His new creation by water and the Word. From Heav’n He came and sought her to be His holy bride; With His own blood He bought her and for her life He died.”

These are just two of the great hymns of the faith that recognize Jesus by His gracious Name: the Foundation or the Cornerstone.  This Name means much to the believer. It tells us of our security in Him.  He is a foundation that cannot be moved, and all those who live in Him cannot be moved by the forces of the world either.  We have an eternal house built that cannot fall down.  When we go to sleep in Jesus we know that the house is still built and we are still secure in it.  The forces of Satan may try to shake this house, but the foundation will keep it erect in every tremor of life.  Praise God for this Foundation of Jesus Christ our Lord. 

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