Something To Build On

Habakkuk 2:12
Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity!

The Babylon that Nebuchadnezzar built was one of great beauty. The walls, gates, and streets of Nebuchadnezzar’s Babylon were a tribute to the king’s love of beauty and its magnificent hanging gardens were one of the wonders of the ancient world. The people built this city on the plundering and pillaging of other cities, even Jerusalem. The saddest part of it all is the fact that it fell to the Medes and the Persians. Babylon was great and beautiful but built from sin and blood. It's destruction was in its foundation.

Few people today attempt this same construction work. They believe by tearing down others that it will establish them more. How is this done? Many people do their most destructive work with their tongues than a hammer. When someone finds out that another person has sin in their lives they pillage off of them. Word after word, they lay a foundation of other peoples faults so that their own lives seem equal or better.

Do you remember getting in trouble as a child? Dad would call your name out and you would listen to him correct you and just before the discipline time would come you would say, "Clint did it too". A call out for justice and equality right? No! You just wanted someone else to go down with you. You saw the crack in your foundation and was ready to point out the one that someone else had in theirs.

Stop building your home or life on the faults and blood of others. Stop laying blocks that are not even yours. Start your foundation off on the only foundation that is laid in truth, righteousness and salvation. This foundation is Jesus!

1 Corinthians 3:9-11
For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building. According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon. For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.