Once more, yesterday found me, pre-dawn, walking the lake path. Ironically, I was, literally, walking backward, contemplating the dark state of Christianity, when God’s message broke through with the rising of both the sun and THE SON!!! While both my feet and my thinking were moving in reverse, I chuckled as God flipped around my thinking. To those of you who personally know me, yes, my feet remained rearward till I finished that segment of my routine exercise. God was only concerned with where I was going, not how I was getting there!!!
Glancing at the world, it’s natural to declare the foundation of Christianity is crumbling. Examining THE WORD, it is supernatural to proclaim the foundation of Christianity will never crumble. The foundation of Christianity is not human men, who, at times, fail in following God. Jesus (no one else) always was, always is and always will be the foundation of Christianity. Jesus Christ has not, does not and forever will not break, fall apart or fragment from being the imperishable, undefeatable and ONE and ONLY foundation of Christianity.
Unquestionably, it is a sad day when man’s fallen nature controls a human who is hyped as a tapestry whose thread leads away from sin but,in reality, has fallen into the trap of sin. The world declares this as a fundamental downfall of a human being, and it is; but it is not a crumbling of Christianity’s foundation. I repeat, Christ, not any or all of humanity, is the foundation of Christianity. I three-peat, Jesus Christ did not, does not and will not crumble.
Let’s not confuse the moral of Christianity’s story with a few 21st Century human beings’ morals being lost. Remember, we, Christians, are not to look to earthly leaders as a god, let alone our GOD. Yes, they are pillars that support our worship buildings, but they are not the foundation of our CHURCH. Pillars, on occasion, sometimes weaken and need re-enforcement or replacement. However, Christianity is staked in Christ, not pillars.
Christ, Christianity’s foundation, is God; and He never flails, fails or flickers. Question is, do we see darkness as the world spotlights a few failing pillars? Or, do we witness SONlight, unceasingly rising from within our Christian foundation??? “For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.” 1Corinthians 3:11 (NIV)
Uplifted in a Broken Down World 