No matter how shaky the ground underneath your feet feels, when you’re in a relationship with God, your foundation is firm. It’s solid because it’s not your foundation. It’s God’s. What we try to create on our own will crumble. We might think we know what we’re doing, but don’t have the perspective to understand what will deteriorate. We don’t know when a fire or flood will come. We don’t know what kind of bugs will infest the foundation we were certain would last a lifetime and perhaps beyond. We try to predict the natural wear and tear on building materials, but it’s just that: natural. We need supernatural construction. We need God.
God doesn’t make everything obvious. Even if He provided us with every piece of information, we wouldn’t fully understand because of our limited capacity. We’re human. He’s not! We often try to explain God, but every time we try to define Him, we limit Him, because our definitions will always be less than who God actually is. We must allow Him to reveal us as He knows we are ready and the people around us are ready. He knows the timing of His kingdom work. We respond in obedience, never sitting and waiting when He’d have us respond and stand and never forging forward when He’d have us patiently be still.
God knows what beauty lies within us. We’re created in His image to honor and glorify Him. We must be molded to most accurately reflect who He is. He molds and shapes us throughout life. We respond to His touch and voice. We feel stretched. We feel pressure. We feel messy. We feel unusable. We need to see ourselves through the trustworthy eyes of God. He is regenerating you. He is making you into something new—more beautiful and worthy than you can imagine.
Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them, may be compared to a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and yet it did not fall, for it had been founded on the rock. Everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not act on them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. The rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and it fell—and great was its fall. (Matthew 7:24-27)