Lathered in grace as The Father intended, there is nothing more important or life changing than the gospel.

As I spoke these words to myself in church (“Build your house on solid ground”), I couldn’t help but wonder — “what if you didn’t?”

Matthew 7 24 “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. 26 But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. 27 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.”

So what if you didn’t set something up on solid ground?

What if you didn’t set up a company, or a financial decision, or a life choice?

In fact, what if you acted in pride, or individuality, or even in sin, when you set something up?

I literally asked God….”God, what about the things that I totally screwed up at their very outset?  How can they survive?”

And I was drawn back to a problem that we had at a house that I once owned.  Our steps leading up to the house were cracked all the way up into the house–and sinking.  To me, it looked like a major problem…..

But to the man I talked to, it was no big deal.  He simply said:  “Call a mudjacker.”

I had never even heard of a “mudjacker”.  But they can repair and even raise a cracked and sinking foundation.  They pump in a mixture of sand, cement, and soil to your slab and they can repair a drooping concrete pad.

At the risk of sounding “unholy”, our Father is the greatest of all mudjackers.  He is the One who can fix our cracks, our flaws, and our crumbling concrete pad.

With Him … it doesn’t matter that we didn’t set it up right.  It matters that we change our direction in the now.

God is the great Redeemer.  He RUNS for the broken.  He WAITS and is PATIENT for the lost.  He sends out EVERYTHING He has to rescue the desperate.

When Jesus was on the cross, He vied for the salvation of all.  He cried out for the broken, and He even saved the criminal beside Him as He writhed in agony.

As Jesus died on the cross, God tore the curtain in the temple from top to bottom—not from anger but from His desire to never be far from us again.  He tore it that ANYONE could seek His face and be saved.

And so He could commune with ALL of us, He sent His Spirit.  He sent Him to counsel, to convict, to inspire.  He sent Him to minister, to heal, and to empower.

Our God is not below our cracks or our sinking foundation.  Our God PLANNED for them.

He PLANNED to revive our bad choices.

He PLANNED to promote us when we did not deserve it.

He PLANNED to have us commune with Him.

Receive your gift.

Bask in it.

And then give it away to someone else.

And then you can say, “Even though I didn’t … I Built My House On Solid Ground.”

In The Name of the Father and the 

Son and the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

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Coach J