In life we put build our faith on many different foundations. For some of us it is our faith that we put our faith in. Lately, I’ve seen in my life that I don’t have only one foundation, but other levels of foundation that I lay over the bottom. These are not always bad and they don’t take away from the reality that I do stand on a very strong foundation at the bottom.

Lately, there have been a series of events that have somewhat revealed my pseudo foundations for what they are…not really foundations. Momentum can even build when falling through these layers…it seemed just as I had gotten through one thing another layer fell under that…and so on. I can’t express enough how frustrating this is, but in the end how spiritually liberating the past few weeks have been…to have things in my life put in the appropriate places. In the end, I am standing again firmly on the fact that my only true and consistent foundation is my faith and trust in Christ. Here are some of the questions I’ve been asking myself:

Are my ‘foundations’ a part of life or are they things I use as a substitute for God? (The biggest blessings in our lives can quickly become the biggest idols if we don’t keep first things first.)

What would it feel like if I went through all my self-made foundations and I didn’t have Jesus as my true foundation…but I just used the idea of Him as another fake foundation?

Do I put too much faith in things that really can’t hold the weight?

Should I ever be surprised when the self-made foundations I trust fall through? Aren’t we all just humans in the first place? Do I set myself up to be let down by people by putting standards on them that I would never put on myself?