Have you ever felt that your life would be over if a particular relationship you were in were to end? In may be a relationship with a child, a parent, a sibling, a spouse, a boyfriend or girlfriend, a very close friend or someone else who is close to your heart. No matter who it is, the person is someone who has been a major part of your life for a long time…someone you don’t want to lose and are willing to make nearly any sacrifice to continue the relationship with.
I’ve had a few of those relationships in my lifetime. Some of those relationships are still going strong but there have been some relationships that have ended. Surprisingly, I’m fine. I can still breathe, eat, drink and go about my day despite the fact that a particular person is no longer in my life. In each situation, I didn’t think it was possible; but my life did go on. And guess what…I am happy despite the loss.
It took me a long time to learn the truth of this and I hope you learn it quicker than I did. The truth is that God is the only truly solid foundation for any relationship. Matthew 7:24-27 quotes Jesus, “Anyone who listens to my teaching and follows it is wise, like a person who builds a house on solid rock. Though the rain comes in torrents and the floodwaters rise and the winds beat against that house, it won’t collapse because it is built on bedrock. But anyone who hears my teaching and doesn’t obey it is foolish, like a person who builds a house on sand. When the rains and floods come and the winds beat against that house, it will collapse with a mighty crash.” Jesus Christ is the only Solid Rock and Foundation that will not fail. All human relationships fail in some way or another. Some are able to continue with healing but not all human relationships will survive forever. Some will fall away; but if we have the Maker of everything as our Foundation, we will survive no matter what.
It reminds me of an old hymn by Edward Mote…
My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus’ blood and righteousness;
I dare not trust the sweetest frame,
But wholly lean on Jesus’ name.
On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand;
All other ground is sinking sand,
All other ground is sinking sand.
When darkness veils His lovely face,
I rest on His unchanging grace;
In every high and stormy gale,
My anchor holds within the veil.
His oath, His covenant, His blood
Support me in the whelming flood;
When all around my soul gives way,
He then is all my hope and stay.
forgiven faith 