FIRM FOUNDATIONS

What are you building your life on? What matters in life?  What are you living for?  These are all pretty foundational questions we all probably ponder over at some stage in life.  Money, success, happiness, popularity…….  All viable options, but is there more to life?  When storms come and shake the foundations of life, do they crumble and fall, or are they sure and firm?

All these questions i’ve pondered over at different stages of life, struggling through questions and frustrations as life has taken it’s twists and turns, high’s and low’s.  And this easter is a time to re-visit some of these ponderings.  Mark 16:6 tells us one of the foundational blocks of the Christian faith “He has risen!”, and Paul reminds us in Corinthians the importance of this fact when he states “And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins.”

Throughout the gospels we are presented with evidence of the life, death and resurrection of the person of Jesus Christ, his ultimate purpose being to rescue rebels like me from the grip of sin and it’s eternal consequences.  The recent Christianity Explored course I’ve been involved in taking has explored some of this evidence through the lens of the gospel of Mark.

Maybe this easter time you may want to spend some moments, as I have been, pondering these things.  Ultimately what you do with the person of Jesus Christ is the single most important decision you will make in this life, on what you will build the foundation of your life.  The bible, especially the gospels that outline the life of Jesus demand a response.  As C S Lewis puts it in his book Mere Christianity “Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse.”

So I’ve chosen to build my life on this foundation, that “because He lives, I can face tomorrow”.  What about you this easter time?