The Sure Foundation

March 6

The foundation my parents laid down of faith continues to be my core. Christy Borgeld

Most Christian parents love their children dearly and want nothing more than to have imparted to them and to continue to live before them a faith that is strong—a faith that is foundational to their lives. It is their prayer that the ground on which their children's lives have been built from earliest childhood will be unshaken through all life's storms and will hold the structure of a long, healthy, happy, blessed life throughout the time the Lord grants to them on earth and be the springboard to their eternal joy. Though they may not always be stellar examples of their faith, they pray the Lord Himself will overcome all failure on their part to accomplish that end so their children will have complete victory through Jesus.

Instructing their offspring in the one thing most people lack toward God—obedience—compels them because they know it is in learning this elusive behavior toward parents that children are enabled to one day take their place as a people of faith and obedience to God. As Jesus said, "If you can't love your fellow man who you can see, how can you love God who you cannot see?" I John 4:20. Extrapolating from that the reality of the importance of the seen—our lesson is clear—to be obedient, a child must live obedience. Parents who love must patiently and steadfastly require it of their beloved children or they will not appropriate it.

Even through the areas of difficulty and challenge, godly parents pray their children will be girded by Christ's love and established in obedience to His truth; they pray they will adhere to the Living Word of the Scriptures so their children will know more and ever more fully the Living Word Himself, Jesus, who their parents have attempted to instill into their hearts.

May the foundation you lay down for your children be wrought of faith chiseled from the only unshakable commodity in time (when all else is shaken, only the truth of God shall stand unshaken) Hebrews 12: 26-29 and may the glue that holds it all together be the love of the Living Christ whose life, death, and resurrection are the only secure foundation upon which anyone can build a life that is established forever.