My brother-in-law Jeff recently returned from a mission trip to Honduras. Many of the pictures he has posted remind me of what we saw on our mission trip to the Dominican Republic in 2006. As you look at this picture you wonder why in the world would you bother to pour a concrete floor in a building that surely will struggle to stand anyway? Jeff said that a mother of five lives here. Her husband ran off and she manages the best she can. The concrete will replace an unsanitary dirt floor he said.
As I read this it hit home how powerful a metaphor this is. It's never too late to build a foundation where one never existed. It's never too late to pour solid ground where there was once sinking sand. It's never too late because our walls will never be secure and they can't endure the test of time, life and the world but God (if we allow Him to) will in the same spirit He helped Nehemiah rebuild a wall will help us secure ours. If our walls lean, loosen or fall we can always count on the solid foundation...the solid footing of Jesus to anchor upon.
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